The Devil abroad

The Standon Festival was most entertaining: I bumped into a lot of people who I've not seen since I left the Old Coll in '95, and the Souls played a great gig. In fact, the atmosphere was really rather nice. I then got back to London, took a large amount of various drugs—including one I've never tried before: not all it's cracked up to be, if you ask me—and then stayed up, 'round my brother's place, so that I could ensure that he left in time to catch his 10.30am flight to the US.

I got back to the Foremost Tower of Hell at about 8 in the morning and spent most of Saturday sleeping. On awakening early this morning, I had received a couple of congratulatory emails. What? Why? Oh...

That's right, the results of the 2008 Witanagemot Awards has been published, and The Kitchen has picked up one or two awards. So, here are the categories in which your humble Devil got a mention...

• Best minor party blog (UKIP, nationalists, Green, BNP, etc.)
  Devil's Kitchen
  Ordovicius
  Wonko's World



• Best right-wing blog
  Devil's Kitchen
  Iain Dale
  Guido Fawkes



• Best English political blog
  Iain Dale
  Devil's Kitchen
  Little Man in a Toque



• Best Human Rights / Civil Liberties Blog
  Devil's Kitchen
  Longrider
  Liberal Conspiracy



• Best Foreign Affairs (including Iraq and Afghan wars)
  Croydonian
  Harry's Place
  Devil's Kitchen



• Best Libertarian Blog
  Devil's Kitchen
  Guido Fawkes
  Last Ditch



• Best anti-EU blog
  EU Referendum
  Devil's Kitchen
  England Expects & Eurealist



• Best discussion / Community (which blog generates the best comment threads)
  Political Betting
  Devil's Kitchen
  Guido Fawkes



• Best multiple author / group blog
  Harry's Place
  Devil's Kitchen
  Spectator Coffee House



• Most vindictive political blogger
  Devil's Kitchen
  Guido Fawkes
  Tim Ireland



• Blogger most deserving of a book deal
  Mr Eugenides
  Dizzy Thinks
  Devil's Kitchen



• Best Blog design
  Devil's Kitchen
  Dodgeblogium [which your humble Devil had a hand in]
  Iain Dale



• Blogger you would most like to share a pint with
  Devil's Kitchen
  Guido Fawkes
  Linford / Worstall



• Blogger you would most like to shag
  Trixy
  Bethan Jenkins
  Iain Dale / Devil's Kitchen



• Blogger with the best sense of humour
  Devil's Kitchen
  Guido Fawkes
  Mr Eugenides



• Blogger most likely to be suffering from Tourette's syndrome
  Devil's Kitchen
  Terry Kelly
  Old Holborn



• Blogger most likely to have bi-polar disorder
  Devil's Kitchen
  Tim Ireland
  Nadine Dorries



• The British Isles' best political blog
  Iain Dale
  Devil's Kitchen
  Guido Fawkes



• Which is your favourite Witanagemot Club blog?
  Iain Dale
  Devil's Kitchen
  Wonko's World

Thanks to everyone who voted and thanks to all the readers and commentators at The Kitchen. Finally, a massive thank you—and congratulations—to the other contributors at The Kitchen.

UPDATE: some new blog aggregator, Blogged.com, has given your humble Devil a score of 8.5 out of 10. Whoop.

UPDATE 2: Iain Dale has posted a compare and contrast.

We were pipped to this most prestigious of awards by Trixy and Bethan Jenkins AM.

So I guess this mans Chris Mounsey and I can lay claim (titter) to the title of Most Shaggable Male Bloggers. It does make one wonder how partially sited the electorate were in this competition, doesn't it?

I'm the one who doesn't look like a young Peter Mandelson... Whoops! Sorry, a young John Kettley...