The new lists on my sidebar are somewhat overdue: the new blogs are ones that I've been reading for weeks. In particular I'd like to mention 'My War', which is an extraordinary blog. It struck me as too good to be true, so I hesitated to believe that it was for real, in accordance with the well-known saying. But having read favourable comments about it by Jason van Steenwyk I concluded it's the genuine article. The proletarian intellectual writer does exist! The Old Left used to have a big thing about such people. Unfortunately (depending on your point of view) he's in uniform and in Iraq.