Table 1 A top five of alternative British blogs
The internet, social networking and mobile technology have provided political bloggers with instantaneous and almost entirely uncensored platforms for promoting information, insight, speculation, rumour and lies.
Since the vast majority of political bloggers are unashamedly open in their delivery of biased political opinions, they offer vital nonestablishment alternatives that can only serve to enhance societies that genuinely cherish freedom of expression and aspire to the principles of liberal democracy. But political blogs can also descend into unsavoury smears, libel and slander.
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