There’s only place to blog, of course – the Independent Minds platform, but who are the movers and shakers in amongst the discerning bloggerati who grace our web pages?

These are the top ten most read bloggers in June. If you want to join such distinguished company, you can start your own blog here.

John Rentoul

Peter Bills

Catherine Townsend

Guy Adams

Today in Politics (Andrew Grice)

Cyclotherapy

Ian Burrell

Michael Noble

Dubai Times

Jack Riley
 

It’s an exciting day at The Independent with the launch of Independent Minds, our new comment and opinion platform for Independent journalists  – and users.
 

Regular readers will have noticed that our blogs by the likes of Andrew Buncombe, John Rentoul and more of the finest journalists around are now found on a shiny new blog, with new designs that are, hopefully, a little easier on the eye than the old ones (thanks to our new partners LiveJournal).
 

There’s a new emphasis on the blogs on the cult of the individual, so while there are  a few hangovers from the navigational branding from the old blogs – the likes of Today in Politics was too good to be killed – you’ll find more single-authored blogs than communities. The idea is to centre more on the writer than on the topic.