Links

http://birminghamagainstthecuts.wordpress.com/ The local anti-cuts campaign. Hats off to them, they are doing some sterling work in difficult cirumstances.

http://lefteyerighteye.wordpress.com/ Really good libertarian blog on wordpress. And if the CiF pic is anything to go on the author is pretty cute too….

http://www.newstatesman.com/ Britain’s leading centre-left political magazine. A mixture of brilliant articles and some absolute garbage.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Same as the last one but it’s a newspaper and a rather serious web operation

http://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/ another interesting left-wing blog.

http://foreo.blogspot.com/ One of our most esteemed correspondents William writes a superb film blog. Hopefully some of his reviews and commentaries will appear here at various intervals.

http://pennyred.blogspot.com/ One of the most consistently interesting left-wing bloggers is Laurie Penny. Naturally a hate figure for the right-wing press, her columns are always readable and challenge the status quo. Hence the unpopularity……..

http://liberalconspiracy.org/ A brilliant source of stories, blogs and facts to refute the tripe that comes out of the mouths of the right-wing press.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/ good source of stories and material.

http://www.leftfootforward.org/ Centre-left/progressive blog, lots of detailed policy discussions and analyses of the economic situation

http://www.davidosler.com/ One of the best and most sensible left-wing commentators in Britain.

http://english.aljazeera.net/ Al-Jazeera’s English language site

http://www.reuters.com/ Reuters is one of the world’s leading news agencies. Some interesting stuff on the site. A lot of shit though.

http://anti-box.com/ Really good blog focussing on social policy questions from a feminis perspective. Touches on a lot of subjects that we at the Mambo probably neglect.

http://citizenbarnet.blogspot.com/ a socialist…..in London?

http://www.restirred.com/forum/ A discussion forum for Birmingham politics. Expect the Mambo to intervene in the not too distant future.

http://www.pickledpolitics.com/ A progressive takeon current affairs. Some interesting stuff. Some banal stuff.

http://hurryupharry.org  The notorious Harry’s Place blog. They seem a little obsessed about anti-semitism. While there are plenty of people on the left who fall into the trap of criticising Israel in racial terms, it isn’t everyone, and they shouldn’t tar everyone with the same brush. And it’s Israel subjugating the Palestinians, not the other way around…….  Notwithstanding that an interesting blog with some good articles.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football Easily the best football coverage on the web. Not too interested in much of the domestic coverage and one or two columnists really have nothing to offer but the weekly digests from their correspondents on the continent are of an exceptionally high standard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/timvickery/ Weekly blog on South American football hosted by the BBC from Tim Vickery. Always an interesting read and easily of a comparable quality to the better stuff found on the Guardian.

http://www.footballfilter.com/ Nifty site which previews all recent articles from all major football sites. Zonal Marking and Sports Illustrated in particular are worth monitoring. Essential.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/newbandoftheday Now that i’ve decided i’m too old to read the NME (and the fact its gone shit now anyway) this is a pretty handy alternative way to lazily keep my finger on the pulse of any decent new bands/scenes that emerge. Obviously, with it being a daily feature there’s a fuck of alot of cack to wade through but the odd gem makes it thoroughly worthwhile.

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/ Good music blog. Nice, minimalist approach – doesn’t waste time dancing about architecture just posts streams of videos and mp3s.

http://pressboxred.wordpress.com/ A left-wing sports blog. Some good stuff but a lot about sports I don’t really care about.

http://www.chartist.org.uk/ really good democratic socialist blog I recently found via another blog

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ Really good blogger, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan

http://owenjones.org/ Excellent left of centre writer

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/ Scottish left of centre blog. Bit preoccupied with the independence issue, but I forgive them……

http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/ Very good left wing blog- consistently exellent articles and analysis.

http://buddyhell.wordpress.com/ vaguely interesting blog.

http://think-left.org/ most interesting left wing blog

http://collectiveinvective.blogspot.com/ good blogger

http://intercepttransmission.blogspot.com/ we’re on their roll of honour so they are now on others. Not awesomely prolific, but very fucking good. Like our own DC.

http://falseeconomy.org.uk/ Good source of information on the folly of the cuts.

http://madammiaow.blogspot.com/ Excellent leftwing pop culture blogger

http://labour-uncut.co.uk/ tribal labour blog. Good source of information

http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/ Excellent blogger

http://www.anorak.co.uk/ Good take on the perverse nature of the British media

http://www.saveournhs-wm.org.uk/ The local anti NHS-privatization campaign. Engaged in very good work.

http://www.alternet.org/ Good source of stories and info on American progressive politics.

http://labourlist.org/ Fairly right-wing labour discussion site.

http://thepracticalpinko.com/ Excellent leftwing blog, lots of good contributors