{"id":10286,"date":"2011-06-03T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10286"},"modified":"2011-06-03T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:15:13","slug":"still-there-at-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/03\/still-there-at-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Still there at #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a couple of\u00a0months\u00a0or so ago I first mentioned Wikio had listed this blog as #1 economics blog in the UK I thought it was a bit of fleeting fun.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later they tell me I'm still there.<\/p>\n<p>I'd make comparison to Adele if only she hadn't come out against paying tax (silly girl: how to alienate people who might buy your albums and encourage free-riding down loaders in one easy lesson).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here's the list for May:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">1<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Research UK<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">2<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/timworstall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Worstall<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">3<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Adam Smith Institute Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">4<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/money\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Money: Money blog | guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">5<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/stephanieflanders\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC NEWS | Stephanomics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">6<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/duncanseconomicblog.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duncan's Economic Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/marketforceslive\" target=\"_blank\">Business: Market Forces blog | guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">8<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/politicsandpolicy\" target=\"_blank\">British politics and policy at LSE<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">9<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/fistfulofeuros.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Fistful of Euros<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">10<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmcoles.co.uk\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">malcolm coles<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">11<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golem XIV - Thoughts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">12<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thejfblogit.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Farrington's Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">13<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/anmblog.typepad.com\/this_is_money_blog\" target=\"_blank\">This is Money Blog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">14<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\" target=\"_blank\">Finance \u00bb Edmund Conway<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">15<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rovingbandit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roving Bandit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">16<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/douglasfraser\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC NEWS | Douglas Fraser's blog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">17<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/joannedewberry.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joanne Dewberry<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">18<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economicsuk.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">David Smith's EconomicsUK.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">19<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bankingtimes.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Banking Times: Daily Banking News<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\" valign=\"top\">20<\/td>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurointelligence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eurointelligence<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ranking made by Wikio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikio.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ranking made by Wikio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a couple of\u00a0months\u00a0or so ago I first mentioned Wikio had listed this blog as #1 economics blog in the UK I thought it was<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/03\/still-there-at-1\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}