Andrew Reeves highlighting how the Tories are trying to implement a command and control structure regarding social media for their parliamentary candidates. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose?

Provocative title, provocative post.

'All across the internet, bourgeois fuckwits are slapping themselves on the back, congratulating their cleverness in outwitting the dundering zombie hordes of X-Factor fans.' Quite.

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

I found this post very moving, and it made me want to go and hug my child. You might have a less soppy reaction, but you ought to read it anyway.

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

"Because nobody feels the pain better than a millionaire"

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

Alix once again hits the nail on the head by pointing out how despite general Tory protestations of a hands-off approach, Michael Gove is intending to write the History syllabus himself.

The conservatives recon they can "save" £13 billion by raising the state pension age for men alone. Do the figures add up? What do you think?