Thanks to all those who took part in the shibleyrahman.com survey.
The survey is now closed, so don’t vote any more.
Here are the results:
Blogs
1. One Nation Tory
The fact that this blog came top of out of all the blogs is possibly even a surprise to its editor, @LiamRhodes.
2. Mark Pack
3. Think Politics
4. Shibley Rahman
Obviously, this is a good showing for the person who ran this competition. Clearly, there was a conflict of interest which Shibley is happy to declare.
5. Tom Harris
6. Claire French
7. Alastair Campbell
8. Kerry McCarthy
9. Sunny Hundal
10. Will Straw
Best commentators
1. Johann Hari, Independent/Huffington Post
2. Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
3. Steve Richards, Independent
4. Nick Cohen, The Guardian/Observer
5. Mehdi Hasan, The New Statesman
6. Jackie Ashley, The Guardian
7. Michael White, The Guardian
8. Daniel Finklestein, The Times
9. Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian
10. Kevin Maguire, The Mirror
Best sketch writers
1. Simon Hoggart, The Guardian
2. Ann Treneman, The Times
3. Simon Carr, The Independent
4. Andrew Gimson, The Telegraph
5. Quentin Letts, Daily Mail
TV columnists and reporters
1. Jon Snow, C4
Jon is held in very high esteem by readers of this blog. This is no way surprising to me.
2. Jeremy Paxman, BBC
3. David Dimbleby, BBC
4. Andrew Marr, BBC
5. Michael Crick. BBC
6. Kirsty Wark, BBC
7. Cathy Newman, C4
8. Michael Portillo, BBC
9. Reeta Cbakrabarti, BBC
10. Krishnan Guru-Murthy, C4
Radio journalists
The dominance of the BBC Radio 4 programme, which is held in extremely high esteem by people of all political ‘faiths’, is clearly obvious in this poll.
1. James Naughtie, BBC Radio 4
2. John Humphrys, BBC Radio 4
3. Edward Stourton, BBC Radio 4
4. Martha Kearney, BBC Radio 4
5. Jonathan Dimbleby, BBC Radio 4
6. Evan Davies, BBC Radio 4
7. John Pienaar, BBC Radio 5 Live
8. Elinor Goodman, BBC Radio 4
9. Mark D’Arcy, BBC Radio 4
10. Nicky Campbell, BBC Radio 5 Live