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Saturday, 10th January 2009

Amazingly, I am currently running a close second in the Best UK Blog category in the 2008 Weblog Awards. This blog is the one that's just in front of me. Voting finishes in three days' time. The rules for voting are as follows:

  You may vote once every 24 hours in each poll.

  After voting in an individual poll you will be locked out from voting again in that poll (on the computer you voted from) for 24 hours.

  Each poll has its own separate 24 hour lockout control. Voting in, for example, Best Blog will not lock you out of voting in other categories.

  Vote totals are not final until certified.

  Vote totals are subject to periodic correction for identified cheating.

  Cheaters will be banned from accessing the site for the duration of the voting.

  We reserve the right to close some or all polls earlier than the posted end date.

  In the event of identified cheating, the decisions of the judges as to the manner of correction is final.

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Trevor Padley

January 11th, 2009 2:08am

This doesn't surprise me Melanie,your the voice of millions of suppressed people in this country.I just hope that they don't get to you like i know they will try.Keep up the good work your an inspiration.

Brian O'Connor

January 11th, 2009 4:14am

Melanie wrote:

Amazingly, I am currently running a close second in the Best UK Blog category in the 2008 Weblog Awards.

Amazingly? Not so at all. You should be #1, hands down.

Still, I don't care what others think of you or your blog, or where you end up after the votes are counted.

You're more inspirational and clear-thinking, and your moral compass is better calibrated than any other European/British writer I know of. (Here in the US, you'd have to compete with Claudia Rosett, Charles Krauthammer and Victor Davis Hanson. Boy am I glad I don't have to pick one of you over the other 3!)

Carlo Marutti

January 11th, 2009 6:13am

You have my vote with heartfelt gratitude. Thank you for your brave and truthful words.

Alfas Sami

January 11th, 2009 8:01am

Well done Melanie, just voted

Good Luck!

Alfas Sami

January 11th, 2009 8:02am

Well done Melanie, just voted

Good Luck!

leo solomon

January 11th, 2009 10:19am

Melanie is the Joan of Arch of journalism!!!

EC

January 11th, 2009 11:20am

Leo Solomon,

I don't think her opinions are that imflammable.

I always commend her to my foreign friends as the diamond shining out of the camel's arse that is the Daily Mail.

James Cartwright

January 11th, 2009 5:11pm

Pass the sick bag.

Graeme

January 11th, 2009 5:27pm

You're now first

Greg

January 11th, 2009 6:11pm

Just voted.

Lyle

January 11th, 2009 7:02pm

I think what leo solomon meant was Melanie is the Joan of Arch-Journalism

Margaret Muller-Johansson

January 11th, 2009 8:58pm

EC, you mean she is the diamond shining journalist? she is very clever lady better then you

hadrian

January 11th, 2009 11:00pm

I've voted and urge all other Melanie followers to get doing so, too.

roGER

January 12th, 2009 12:05pm

That is amazing, Mel.

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Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and is a panellist on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze. Her most recent book is 'The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power', published by Encounter.

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