discuss correlation between corruption and opposition to electoral reform.

There was a by election in Oldham East & Saddleworth. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Telegraph seems to be warming to Nick Clegg...

A flirtation with blogging and commentary on recent news events...

Today we lost LibDem blogger Rachel Smith to Leukaemia. I'm posting this link to my blog so fellow LibDems can see how wonderful she was and perhaps donate to her fundraising efforts for the unit in Sheffield that was treating her.

For the past week I have watched as the media, Labour and everyone else it seems has taken lumps out of the Liberal Democrats in a welcome to Government style pasting. I had a few thoughts on this.

Mark Reckon returns with a fantastic post on the whole Student Fees debacle

Three reasons Beckett is misguided on AV: 1) Fiji is under a military dictatorship 2) Turnout in Australian elections, prior to AV, fluctuated and in the two elections preceding, was not at their lowest level 3) Labour uses AV for leadership elections

Excellent account of one of David Laws's book launch events giving the inside story of the coalition's formation

Andrew's right - some people didn't find what they were looking for. Who were they?