So here are some of the Third Estate writers’ favourite blog posts this year, from around the web and by each other (hey, so we like how each other write!) Many thanks to everyone who has supported the Third Estate over 2010! January Blairites victoary over Brown means certain defeat – Socialist Unity The Daily [...]
For a long time we have heard about the dearth of journalistic jobs. Newspapers have struggled to “adapt their business models” to the epoch of everything written being free. Meanwhile other kinds of businesses are arising to pick up the slack, and take on underemployed writers. And some of them offer a truly frightening picture [...]
As you probably already know, voting for this year’s Total Politics Top Blog Awards is well under way. Naturally, I hope all our readers will vote for The Third Estate again this year. However there are some other really great left-wing blogs out there. With the Conservatives in government again and David Milliband likely to [...]
It’s Valentines Day 2009. Six young men with Cambridge degrees and no dates decide to do something vaguely meaningful with their lives and launch what they hope to be a new voice in progressive political blogging. I didn’t really know quite what to expect when I signed up to it. Whilst I’ve always had a [...]
Whilst some members of The Third Estate are veteran bloggers, 2009 was my first year of serious political blogging with the exception of a few articles here and there for Socialist Unity. It is, then, with some trepidation that I follow fellow lefty bloggers such as Phil BC, Andy Newman, Left Outside and Though Cowards Flinch in [...]
Ah, Twitter. That bite-sized break from ennui, that stream of consciousness, that tool of social mobilisation… but mobilisation to what? Twitter has played an important part in the democratisation of politics – witness the Tweets of solidarity from Iran and the recent downfall of the Carter Ruck’s Trafigura injunction against The Guardian (which was also in [...]
Sorry for a slightly navel gazing post. Recently, a number of people I have spoken to have told me in no uncertain terms that while they enjoy The Third Estate, they find it somewhat problematic (or worse) that we have no female bloggers. The result, I am told, is an obvious lack of female perspectives. [...]
