It's The Dick Wot Won It!

Well, to be accurate, it was you lot piling in to nominate our esteemed mascot wot won him the Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Readers' Choice award, but I couldn't resist aping the famous Sun headline. You can afford yourselves a pat on the back too, since Con Home have called it a "very good choice".

I thought the game was up once Dan Hannan suggested his massive readership vote elsewhere, to be honest, but fellow jewel robbers are obviously made of more determined stuff than Telegraph lurkers.

We like little victories like this at Puddlecote Towers - or "total triumph", as one of his parliamentary team described it by e-mail - so will naturally be changing our Phil's sidebar tribute to recognise this.

Rah rah, team!