Jon Bright (London, OK): The Witanagemot Club's 2007 blog awards have been announced, with a few medals for OurKingdom - we finished 3rd in the Best Group Blog category (behind Samizdata and A Tangled Web), 2nd in the Best New Blog category (behind the Spectator's Coffee House), and 1st in the Best Constitutional Reform Blog category. Our parent site openDemocracy also won Best Foreign Affairs Blog. Full results here (opens pdf).
If one gold, one silver and one bronze makes us the Britain of this Olympics then Iain Dale was undoubtedly the US, cleaning up in no less than fourteen categories (including Blogger Most Likely to Vote for a Donkey if you Slapped the Correct Colour Rosette On It). As his site is also part of the Witanagemot club he did start with an advantage... Dale is now running his own Top 100 of political blogs - to prevent him sweeping all 100 places for himself, please vote for us and the other blogs that tell it as it is. This is important as it seems that supposedly well-read and connected journalists like Steve Richards have never head of us (despite his fellow Independent columnist Andreas Whittam Smith pointing out OurKingdom more than a month ago - you may have started to read blogs, Steve, but do you read the Independent?). Richards has just written a column saying how vital blogs now are to his mornings but that all of them are right-wing or Tory. So help him wake up a better man by voting for sites like OK and Pickled Politics here.
