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Election fever (and I use the word fever hoping that itis really true in some countries... in the UK it's like when you tested positive for covid with nothing other than a hint of a sore throat and your entire schedule for the next few weeks goes tits up even though you don't feel anything other than fed up) is underway across the world, and media of all varieties are filled with voices trying to attract your attention... But who do you actually listen to?

Modern wisdom seems to believe that young people (a group whose age range varies alarmingly depending on who is talking about them) take most of their political news from Social Media, and almost always imply that this is a bad thing. I can't say I understand why. You can get an idiot on the BBC and a professor of politics saying something insightful on Tiktok. Ultimately it depends on the message and the messenger.

So who do you make a point of listening to? Who do you always give time to regardless of whether you agree with them or not?

As a starter for ten, here are six of mine

Professor John Curtis (the political expert of choice for almost all UK media organisations)
Dr Mark Pack (President of the Lib Dems)
Andrew Neil (British journalist)
Tommy Walker (left wing comedian, creater of Jonathan Pie)
Jeremy Corbyn (no, really. Former leader of the Labour Party and current bastion of what remains of the left wing in Britain)
Family and friends (more than 1 person and collectively more significant a voice than any of the others)

Mine include:

Professor John Curtice
Owen Jones (UK columnist)
Thomas G. Clark (UK blogger who writes under the name "Another Angry Voice")
Cathy Newman (Channel 4 News)
John Oliver (Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, etc)
Amanda Palmer (Musician, activist).