Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear readers,
Apologies for being a little slow off the mark with my words of gratitude, but I wanted to pause from my regular blogging today to say that I’m flattered, honoured and humbled to be ranked 21st in the 2009 Total Politics blog poll.  Thank you to everyone that voted for Letters From A Tory [...]

Dear readers,
Continuing my brief excursion into the Total Politics Top 100 lists, today I’m going to be taking a closer look at the top-ranked Labour blogs.  Here is their Top 20 poll result for 2009 with last year’s position in brackets:
1   (1)   Tom Harris MP
2   (2)   Hopi Sen
3   (-)   LabourList
4   (-)   Alastair Campbell
5  (13) [...]

Dear readers,
After saying yesterday that I was going to spend today looking at the Labour blogosphere, I’m afraid that I have been forced to deviate from that plan slightly.  You see, the Top 100 left-of-centre blogs has been released and will be discussed tomorrow but in the meantime I have to discuss why the Top [...]

Dear readers,
As I’m sure some of you know, Total Politics are currently releasing the results of their annual blog poll over the course of several days.  As a member of the Conservative blogosphere I’m probably a little too biased to comment on what the last 12 months have been like in that particular area but [...]

Dear readers,
My letter today concerns a blog ranking system called ‘Wikio’.  As some readers may not be familiar with this ranking system, I thought I would give my two cents worth about whether or not it’s worth worrying about from a blogger’s perspective.  I’m sure most people who follow political blogs have seen some of [...]

No, not Gordon Brown’s lies about public spending – I’m talking about the way that I shamelessly plug this blog when it comes to annual blog awards!

Yes, it’s that time of year again when Total Politics magazine compiles their list of the Top 100 political blogs in the UK, as voted for by you.  I would [...]

Dear readers,
I have returned from my fairly dry holiday in Scotland – thanks for all your nice comments left during my break.  There are several reasons why I currently have a big grin on my face, which I will now deal with in turn:
1. My holiday was great.
2. My blog celebrated its first anniversary while [...]

Dear readers,
I am very humbled to read that at the end of last week, I won the award for ‘Best New Blog’ in the Witanagemot Blog Awards 2008.  Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me.  I almost fell off my chair when I saw that I’d also come second in the award [...]

Dear readers,
As you may remember, it was only a few days ago that I asked/begged for your support in the Witanagemot Blog Awards.  Today, I find myself in the slightly embarrassing position of asking/begging for your support for the second time within a week.  Iain Dale has just started collecting votes for the Guide to Political [...]

If you enjoy reading this blog (which hopefully someone out there does) then I would be very grateful for your votes in the Witanagemot Blog Awards 2008.  There are lots of categories to vote in but you don’t have to vote in all of them.  CLICK HERE if you think this blog is worth a [...]