Andrew Reeves highlighting how the Tories are trying to implement a command and control structure regarding social media for their parliamentary candidates. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose?

"... in the build-up to the election Clegg's pro-European, anti-Westminster, redistributive liberalism gives him an authentic and distinctive voice. At least he knows his voice will be heard when not so long ago it seemed as if he'd be drowned out by the clamour of the two bigger parties. We will have to wait and see whether he will take it, but he has a chance."

It's about time that someone actually tests claims of a "broken society" against the evidence. As Sunder Katwala says, "The Economist has nailed this pretty comprehensively this week". A surprising quote: "the average voter reckons that four out of ten teenagers have children, for instance, whereas in fact perhaps three in a hundred do."

A call for libertarian bloggers to grapple with the Big Issues - education, foreign policy, social services - and drop their alcohol/gambling/smoking "get out of my room Mom!" obsessions.

Although my heart sank at the headline, this is actually quite a good piece at turning abstruse electoral reform arguments into an issue people can relate to.

A generous and well deserved post about Duncan on his 50th birthday.

A great summing up: "When it came to Iraq, Tony Blair was a combination of passionate conviction and cavalier disregard for detail. It was that fatal marriage which explains so much of what went so wrong."

Provocative title, provocative post.

Excellent post about how Parliament behaved over the Iraq war

The rearing secrets of the Duffetts revealed! Good little article about how nobody knows anything about raising children and shouldn't pretend to.