Top english political writers (Trending topics)

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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	George Orwell	7,719
2	Christopher Hitchens	7,043
3	Bertrand Russell	5,958
4	John Stuart Mill	3,985
5	David Icke	3,196
6	Jonathan Swift	2,416
7	Boris Johnson	2,104
8	Billy Bragg	1,361
9	Andrew Sullivan	1,350
10	Frank Field (politician)	347
11	Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis	171
12	Freda Utley	157
13	Iain Dale	142
14	Norman Angell	100
15	William Prynne	88
16	Rachel Reeves	77
17	Damian Thompson	63
18	Thomas Spence	40
19	Derek Wall	39
20	Adrian Hilton	37
21	Alexander Falconbridge	37
22	Henry Hyndman	35
23	David McLellan (academic)	35
24	John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey	31
25	Philip Francis (politician)	28
26	Toby Harnden	28
27	Douglas Hyde (author)	25
28	Thomas Hollis (1720-1774)	20
29	Samuel Bailey	19
30	Jack Common	18
31	Benjamin Kidd	17
32	Jeremy Collier	16
33	John Hales (MP)	15
34	Identity of Junius	12
35	David Craig (author)	12
36	Francis Neilson	11
37	James Burgh	11
38	Roger Crab	10
39	Molly Scott Cato	10
40	Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer)	7
41	Joseph Salmon	7
42	John Saltmarsh (clergyman)	7
43	Frank Hodges (trade unionist)	6
44	Ralph Bates (writer)	6
45	John Banks (activist)	6
46	James Tyrrell (writer)	less than 5 views
47	Edward Pearce (journalist)	less than 5 views
48	Tony Linsell	less than 5 views
49	John Almon	less than 5 views
50	George Frederick Abbott	less than 5 views
51	Sir Francis Blake, 2nd Baronet, of Twizell Castle	less than 5 views
52	Philip Hunton	less than 5 views
53	Isaac Wake	less than 5 views
54	Matthew Wren (writer)	less than 5 views