Well, Long listed for the Orwell is as far as we got, but if you haven’t already read them here’s the shortlist with two of my own favourites for the blog prize, Rangers Tax Case (who’s exceptional work is now coming to fruition) and the intimiable Alex Massie, a Tory blogger that most Scots Nats respect if don’t ever quite agree with… Alex as a Trinity old boy is about the nearest Ireland has to a rep in the final shortlist for any of the three prizes…
- Alex Massie – Alex Massie
- Ms Baroque Baroque in Hackney
- BendyGirl Benefit Scrounging Scum
- Lisa Ansell Lisa Ansell
- Rangers Tax-Case Rangers Tax-Case
- Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi
- Wiggy Beneath the Wig
Special congratulations to my former Telegraph colleague, Toby Harnden for making the book prize shortlist with Dead Men Risen… The others are…
- Siddhartha Deb The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India (Penguin)
- Misha Glenny Dark Market: CyberThieves, CyberCops and You (Vintage)
- Gavin Knight Hood Rat (Picador)
- Richard Lloyd Parry People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman (Jonathan Cape)
- Julia Lovell The Opium War (Pan Macmillan)
And the journos:
- Edward Docx Prospect Magazine; The Guardian
- Daniel Finkelstein The Times (£)
- Amelia Gentleman The Guardian
- Simon Kuper Financial Times
- Paul Lewis The Guardian; Twitter
- David James Smith The Sunday Times (£)
Mick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty