The Orwell Prize 2009 longlists announced

The longlists for The Orwell Prize 2009 have been announced - "18 books are on the Book Prize longlist, 12 journalists are on the Journalism Prize longlist, and 12 bloggers have made our first ever Blog Prize longlist. All of the longlists will be whittled down to six entries each for the shortlists. The shortlists will be announced at a special Shortlist Debate at Reuters, 'Are political parties bankrupt? The economic emergency and the next election', on 25th March 2009"