On the day of Blair's statement to the Chilcott inquiry, here's Alex Wilcock on Labour, liars, legislation... and libraries.

Stephen Glenn responds, from a Christian viewpoint, to right-wing blogger Donal Blaney's reactionary remarks about gay marriage.

Meet the non-diplomatic Baroness Buscombe of the PCC, and ask yourselves; do you really want to see the content of your blog posts regulated and bound by the "standards" set by this unelected Tory peer and her cronies? Paul Walter at Liberal Burblings has the full background.

#againsttheodds Sara Bedford takes apart the latest Labour PPB.

Next Left's Sunder Katwala runs down the list of top 10 Tory blogs, and finds none of them believes in the severity of global warming as a top political issue.

Great fisk of Gove's proposals for the history curriculum.

Excellent post by Jonathan Calder on the rather odd sight of all these Tory bloggers cheering on Nigel Farage against one of their own MPs. Also contains the best wicker hamper metaphor I have ever seen.

Good analysis from the Cafe.

Caron gives both barrels to Irfan Ahmed, after he said: "Many women don’t have a clue about politics so they need someone to make their decisions for them and for that reason its OK for the man to decide who the women votes or is it? I don’t see anything wrong with a man making the decision in the household to who everyone votes but then that is just me."