Wonderful, heartfelt post. Also, despite the counsels of despair, oddly stirring.

First class. Extremely useful.

Wonder when Ashcroft will come clean?

Classic @jamesgraham rip-up of Cameron on Lisbon

George Monbiot reports on some interesting research in Nature, suggesting that maybe small green actions don't actually lead to larger ones, and that we should all stop being such self-absorbed ninnies and campaign for real, political change.

Great post by Sunder Katwala: "We look forward to both David Cameron and the Labour first-past-the-post campaign making the case that John and Edward should now be declared X Factor winners. But I think it is right that you need to win a majority to have the X-Factor - and suggest it is a principle from which Westminster might learn."

Ali C. is becoming an absolute must-read Labour blogger for me (though I hate his blog design): this is a fantastic piece, nailing Cameron's image obsession, and his bigger, strategic failure on Europe.

"Ultimately, modern science poses a lot of uncomfortable questions about to what extent we can be said to exert free will. We need to engage with that debate not merely wrap ourselves in Victorian philosophy and hope it will go away."

Excellent post by Heresiarch highlighting how the government pursues "policy based evidence-making".

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