The 2005 Fighting Talk Power ListThe Listener published its 2005 Power List this week, with, no surprises, the PM and various politicos and rich people dominating the list. Hamish McKenzie over at Fighting Talk has a few reservations over the list...

[A]ll they've managed to come up with are a bunch of dirty old worms. Their list is riddled with inaccuracies, poor judgment calls, and other credibility-destroying faux pas, none of which I'll deign to mention.

Lucky for you, then, that Fighting Talk (in this case represented by a PowerPanel of one -- me) has taken on the task of producing a more authoratative and altogether less retarded power list.

Not only is our list a better reflection of where power lies in this country, but it is also more diverse than the Listener's soon-to-be-infamous white-bespectacled-male-dominated effort. Our list is made up of actors, writers, bloggers, politicians, retired sports stars, and even a warrior princess.

And, indeed, any list that includes Sir Humphrey's Antartic Lemur ("Considered, reasonsed, logical, amiable, and probably very handsome. A power blogger from an incomparably powerful blogsite"), PublicAddress's Russell Brown ("The hardest-working journalist without any discernable audience" ahaha!), and the Flight of the Conchords ("They're talking about the issues but they're keeping it funky.") is a list worth checking out.
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