A review of the newspapers from Yes Minister days.

Just how much can the Socialist International turn a blind eye to? Quite a lot, it seems. All international political umbrella organisations (including liberal ones) should be more careful when admitting members. Otherwise they risk legitimising undemocratic behaviour.

In the first post on her new blog, Christine Berry (ex-researcher for David Howarth) puts the Telegraph up against the wall. As she says, "Many and varied as the reasons to hate Rupert Murdoch are, I'm not aware of any media outlet other than the Telegraph trying to interfere in politics in such a brazen way, and succeeding so well."

An excellent precis of The Whole Damned Business.

An exasperated post by a Labour sympathiser wondering why on Earth Ed Miliband chose Alan Johnson as Shadow Chancellor.

Mike Smithson rightly despairs at all parties' obsession with where their candidates have lived. (The Lib Dems being possibly the worst.) Should someone have to be "born and bred" in a constituency in order to represent it?

Some simple advice for long-term political success: "Stick to your beliefs, do what you do because of your beliefs and you will increase your voter base."

Mathew Hulbert realises that the "Big Society" is actually rather liberal when he looks at the local level.

Chris Dillow reports a counterintuitive finding and draws some policy implications. The first of these is that the Coalition policy of capping high-skilled immigration "is a stupid idea". Is Teresa May listening?

A good post on the electoral risks to the Lib Dems posed by the cuts: we used to get support from public sector workers, but will they want to vote for us now?