The article accompanying the Total Politics UK Political Blogs Top 50 argues that "the right-of-centre hegemony, which has dominated the UK blogosphere for several years, seems to be at an end".

Why? Because, according to TP, over half the top 500 political blogs incline to the left.

That’s as maybe. Pity so few people are reading them.

The Top 20 or so blogs with significant numbers of readers skew severely to the Right (and Libertarian).

Huh? Libertarians? In the UK?

According to the TP classifications, three Libertarian blogs are in the Top 20: Guido (in a towering first place), Devil’s Kitchen (No 6) and Tim Worstall (No 13).

Oddly one of my favourites Samizdata (No 40) is marked as a Lib Dem blog. I think not.

These TP ratings are not exactly scientific. But they may be the best we have for now.

And they suggest that those in Brussels who fret that the blogosphere is too ‘anti-European’ ("Apart from official websites, the internet has largely been a space left to anti-European feeling….") may be correct.

If there were a referendum in the UK on either joining the Eurozone or the Lisbon Treaty, the sharp end of the UK blogosphere as it stands now would be powerfully in the No camp.

And their collective energy would sway a lot of voters in that direction?