There are too many fascinating people on Twitter to name them all but here is a list of those whose tweets I have most enjoyed in 2012. The entries appear in no particular order of relevance or importance.
Tweeps from the United States
Jeffrey Goldberg – National Correspondent, The Atlantic. One of the most reasoned, calm and sane voices
Eli Lake – Senior national security reporter for Newsweek/Daily Beast. Follow him, if you want to know the truth about Benghazi
Abe Greenwald – Senior Editor, Commentary
Ben Cohen – Contributor to Commentary, WSJ, Ha’aretz, NY Post, Jewish Ideas Daily, Fox News, JNS and Jerusalem Post
Ari Fleischer – Former White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush. Probably the funniest guy I follow.
The Bush Center- Official account of the George W. Bush Presidential Center
Tom Taylor - No one re-tweeted me more often. Thank you!
Condoleezza Rice – Former Secretary of State. Political queen of the universe and parallel universes
John McCain – The man who tirelessly exposes the moral bankruptcy of Obama’s foreign policy
Steven A Cook – Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Max Boot – Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Josh Rogin – Staff Writer, The Cable
Jackson Diehl – Foreign Affairs columnist, The Washington Post
Ian Bremmer – President of EurasiaGroup
Shadi Hamid – Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center & Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution
Brian Stewart – Unabashed neocon
Charles Krauthammer – The man behind the ‘Bush Derangement Syndrome’
Andrew Kaczynski – Reporter for BuzzFeed Politics
Tweeps from the United Kingdom
John Rentoul – Columnist, Independent on Sunday; biographer of Tony Blair. The oracle of Westminster
Nick Cohen – Writer for the Observer, Time, Spectator and Standpoint. He affectionately calls me a ‘crazed neocon babe’
Stephen Pollard – Editor, the Jewish Chronicle
Tony Blair Office – Official account of the Former Prime Minister
Ruth Turner – CEO of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and one of the hardest-working and most trustworthy people you will find in British politics
Mr Partisan – Writer , Commentary. In his own words: ‘I makes Newt Gingrich look like a Marxist’.
Robert Halfon – My favourite MP
Tom Harris – A fine and immensely entertaining Labour MP
Martin Bright – Political Editor of The Jewish Chronicle and Spectator blogger
Blairsupporter - I may resigned from the Blairite attack squadron but he is still standing
Rob Marchant - Blogger and keeps sanity alive on the left
Glen OGlaza – Political Correspondent Sky News
Tim Marshall – Foreign Affairs Editor Sky News (showing his true colours at alter ego Itwitius)
Citizen Sane – His Twitter name speaks for itself: 100% sanity from the political centre
Charles Crawford – Former British Ambassador
Peter Watt – Former Labour Party General Secretary under Tony Blair
Jacob Campbell – Research fellow at the Institute for Middle Eastern democracy and Ahmadinejad hater numero uno
Ed West – Prematurely Right-wing London journalist and Daily Telegraph blogger
Sarah Pilchick- My Jewish princess. Plus, we survived the London School of Economics together
Mark Wallace – Political campaigner
Matthew Taylor- Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Gary Kent – Administrator of the All-Party Parliamentary Group the Kurdistan Region in Iraq
Ben McCcabe – It takes a brave man to wear a Rick Santorum sweater vest at the London School of Economics
HKK G – The crème de la crème of Twitter Kurds
Matthew d’Ancona – Columnist, The Sunday Telegraph
Norman Geras – Professor Emeritus in Politics, University of Manchester
Daniel Finkelstein – Columist, The Times
Hopi Sen – Blogger
Alex Dean – Head of Public Affairs, Weber Shandwick UK
Oliver Kamm – Leader Writer, The Times. No one destroys Noam Chomsky like he does
David Aaronovitch – Columist, The Times
Heath Pritchard - Political refugee from Obamunist Seattle
Thanks for the mention, Julie. Must say – I ‘love’ your choice of Top 10 Losers too! Excellent stuff. Almost makes me wish I still had that blog running. KUTGW, as someone once said ;0)