Stephen tells us about Homophobia Northern Ireland style.

Sara sensitively and eloquently describes the stresses of trying to conceive and empathises with the Hagues in one of the best pieces of writing I've seen about this.

On the 31 August 2010, the Home Office confirmed that the government will not opt-in to draft European laws on human trafficking. Please,let’s remember what we are about as a party: we are in favor of Europe and internationalism; we are against organised crime, especially traficking.We are committed to social equality and helping most vulnerable people. Let's urge ministers to sign this direct

The reason Andy Burnhams commented and the argument I used with John Prescott is that Labour are NOT being honest with the voters (again). Actually they are being complete hypocrites.

Caron points out that Health and Safety is restricting our children to an internal lifestyle when they cannot learn from the great outdoors (even supervised) as we all did as kids.

A letter to Prescott on his campaign against 111 service

James pretty much sums up how I'm feeling currently, and actually manages to write it all down.

In the wake of the latest government "crackdown" on benefit fraud, it's worrying to see some "Lib Dems" are believing the tabloid hype about claimants being feckless and fraudulent. Mercifully, Jennie is not among them; here she explains why tax evasion by the rich is a far bigger problem.

Not cheery, but absolutely essential, reading for Lib Dems trying to understand why we under-performed expectations in May 2010.

Spidey gives Labour some very good advice. I doubt they'll take it, but she's right that they need to lose their sense of entitlement to power and start contributing properly to future policy debates.