You Love and They Hate" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 68, 119); ">Over Three Million Hits for the Blog You Love and They Hate

Fear and Filth in Brown’s No. 10 - Nick Cohen
Taxodus : Publisher Informa Goes Swiss - Guardian
Put Gordon Out of Our Misery - Richard Littlejohn
Hero to Zero - Indy
Will Brown Go - Comment Central
Labour MPs on Suicide Watch - Daily Mail
Tory New Intake Will Be Tories - Times
All Over for the PM - John Rentoul
Cameron is Preparing Whitehall - Ben Brogan
Carla Bruni Sex Tapes - Tory Bear
Priority for Labour MPs - Jon Craig
Pickles’ Favourite Websites - CentreRight
Was Cameron ‘Dave the Raver’? - Guardian
Internet Could Finish Brown Off - Bagehot
Polish PM Lectures Brown on Debt - Times
Tories Fail to Kick Balls Over Lies - Simon Hoggart
Laugh at Gordon’s Web 2.0 Failures - Times
Westminster Isn’t Listening to Labour - PolitcsHome

You Love and They Hate" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 68, 119); ">Over Three Million Hits for the Blog You Love and They Hate

April saw a total of over 3.6m pageviews from 1,382,879 visits by 347,994 visitors making 2,995,765 pageviews plus 680,207 views via RSS feed readers.  Not bad for one guy with a laptop, Blackberry and a penchant for Guinness. With traffic averaging over 100,000 pageviews daily this blog puts traditional political publications like the New Statesman in the shade, forcing the likes of the Indy’sSteve Richards (no fan of Guido: “neither daring or clever”, the feeling is mutual*) to admit that  nevertheless yours truly

is in my view one of the most influential figures in the British media. One day this week I heard five items on the Today programme that followed up his stories or his observations. Politicians have not learnt how to cope with an individual who has as much impact as entire newspapers.

How that growing realisation must really burn Polly, Aaronovitch, Yasmin, Jenkins, Sir Michael and the rest of the commentariat’s mediasaurs.  Like acid.

Examine the front page media agenda last month: Smeargate, Snouts in the Trough, MPs expenses and of course, the developing “Gordon is bonkers” meme, all topped off nicely with a round of mea culpas on the inside comment pages from the shamed copy takers in the Lobby.  Not forgetting the Damian McBride coup de grâce, and resignation tribute. Whose acid house tunes were the media elite humming?

Many thanks to you the readers and the advertisers who make this blog more profitable than both the Guardian and Independent combined.

*See also Steve Richards: Fails Numeracy Test and Steve Richards : “Voters Aren’t As Clever As Me”.