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The nagging seems to have continued over my quietness recently on the whole blogging front recently.

As I stated in an earlier post a lot of that has to do with my internet packing in and now my laptop has died a horrible and painful death on me. Time to get rebooted me thinks. I’ve also become quite addicted to the West Wing, the watching of which has occupied quite a considerable amount of my personal time recently.

However, it really is about time that Scottish Tory Boy digs out his blogging keyboard and logs into blogger.com, right? Right indeed.

I am refusing to comment on the following issues:

1) Mundell’s divorce – frankly I don’t see any need to as it’s a private matter and
2) Murray Tosh apparently being linked to the role of deputy chairman of the party as it’s only at the rumour stage.

In order to get myself reacquainted with the blogging world it’s probably best I have a wee look around the other prominent Scottish Bloggers and maybe do a wee list of blogs I read regularly, heck, why not.

In no particular order blogs I quite like:

SNP Tactical Voter: I particularly enjoyed this blog during election time due to Jeff’s number crunching ability but it seems his blog has turned into quite an impressive political and social commentary.

Calum Cashley: Now I do enjoy this blog. It certainly makes me laugh and his constant putting the boot into, well, pretty much anything.

Kezia Dugdale: She may have to spell her name to people, a phenomenon that has spawned a countless facebook groups, but I do enjoy her, quite partisan, commentary on things at times although I often disagree with her on a late of things. Probably due to her uber right wing tendancies!!!

Malc in the Burgh: Not only a chum of mine but also a blogger I read quite often mainly for his take on foreign issues – an area of politics I tend not to comment on often, if I have at all that is.

Tartan Hero: unfortunately currently on a hiatus of sorts but a cracking blogger.

AdamSmithWasASocialist: Bit of a number cruncher – I admire that talent but currently can’t be arsed having a bash at it!

Brian Taylor: Probably the best political commentator going so certainly a blog I read often quite a good pool player also.

It’s fairly clear from reading blogs that it’s an area that the SNP tend to dominate quite comfortably. The number of Tory and Labour bloggers, politicians aside, can be counted on one hand and with there being zero Lib Dem bloggers in Scotland it seems to be a market dominated by the SNP.

Now I’m not naïve enough to believe that blogs or bloggers set the political agenda in Scotland but I feel we play a role as there have been times I myself have had my stories appear in the press from time to time. It’s quite concerning that the blogesphere is quite so concentrated by Nats, cyber-Nats to quote Lord Foulkes. I am also puzzled why the Greens haven’t really ventured into the blogging world to a great extent in Scotland.

Generally speaking the blogs are quite quiet, much focus seems to be on American Elections – an area I don’t feel I know enough about to comfortably comment aside from the fact that apparently John McCain has done a lot for boxing – the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act – I’m not a boxing fan but one of my closest mates is and often tells me about this bill.

As I’m struggling for material, I’ll accept suggestions for content in the comments section.

Cheers,

STB