First of all, let me wish my flock a very Happy New Year. I'm sure you will all join me in praying for all the cast and crew at the BBC's Thought For The Day. Long may it continue to be the most consistently entertaining highlight of the Today Programme.

It hasn't been a bad month, platitudinousness wise. Only the other day, we had Rev Roy Jenkins comparing atheists to the Bali bomber. Then on Christmas Eve, we had the Padre of 11 Light Brigade telling us all how much he loved children. Let's hope the brigade doesn't accidentally blow any of them to pieces. As always, Anne Atkins is represented, complaining about people enjoying singing Christmas carols. Anne will lose some credibility this month since she made several quite sensible and largely unobjectionable contributions. I hope and pray that this sad state of affairs will be remedied in the new year.

Although not a popular choice according to platitudinometer ratings, I think we really do have to include Lord Jonathan Sacks. Thanks to him we now know how to solve that age old ethical dilemma: what to do if you only have one candle but you have two holy days to celebrate? I really don't know how I managed to get through life so far without Lord Sacks' helpful moral advice.

A special guest contribution was made by the creationist scientist Dr. Kent Hovind, whose Ph.D. thesis is now available online. One instinctively recognises the scholarly calibre of his work when it opens with the line, "Hello, my name is Kent Hovind."

I'm going to leave it 'till Monday before announcing the winner, so you've got all weekend to recover from your hangover and click on the little yellow dots of your favourite contribution.