Mad Melanie Phillips has pulled ahead in the Weblog Awards but Created in Birmingham can still stop the gong going to a right-wing harpie who appears to enjoy nothing more than stirring up racial tensions and pandering to the basest prejudices of society while pretending that some of the most wealthy and powerful military-industrial complexes on the planet are the poor, put-upon victims.

Vote now – and (thanks to the flaws of online “democracy”) vote often. To those still voting for me – thanks, you’re very sweet, but even I’m not voting for me any more.