The Times lists itself in arbitrary "five best political websites" ranking

Unless you’re polling other people (like Iain Dale*) or relying on some formula (like Wikio) the obvious conflict of interest leads people to exclude themselves from rankings in which they would otherwise appear. But it seems this is lost on The Times, who list themselves in a seemingly arbitrary compilation of the “five best political websites”:

As for the rest of the list, Scrapbook would like to try whatever Mike Peake was smoking when he decided  Boris Johnson’s “blog” (essentially his columns from The Telegraph) was the third best political website in the world. How PoliticsHome can fail to feature in a list of sites without ”any overt political allegiance” is also beyond this blogger.

Understanding what Twitter is would be a good start!

Hat-tip: Alex Stevenson (sorry, Alex)

* Even if the Total Politics list is biased to the right (Scrapbook plans to pick this gauntlet up during the summer).