Guardian Comment is Free piece showing how the Hague/Coulson stories show media deflecting blame, and colluding with each other, over poor journalism.

A told-him-so posting lauding TB's conversion to the importance of process and organisational structures.

Not that I imagine there will be any extra interest in these elections this year compared to previous years'. I mean, why would there be?

Of intensions, extensions and liberal philosophy.

Asks some tricky, tough but entirely fair questions of William Hague's appointment of Christopher Myers as his special advisor.

In praise of the Coalition negotiations: 'The way the coalition was formed demonstrated that a hung parliament doesn’t mean sordid, long-winded back room deals. ... It was a better advert for electoral reform than the YES campaign could ever come up with.'

Asking some simple but big questions - and I love this quote: 'even in some future Lib Dem utopia with PR and proper local control of public services, I would be wary of talking about the state having aspirations. People have aspirations - often widely differing aspirationsand it is the role of the modern state to allow them to live in harmony while seeking to fulfill those aspirations.'

Continuing the Liberal philosophical conversation... 'The essence of community politics is that citizen should "organise themselves into communities to take and use power" not that they should put their trust and invest their hopes in the state.'

Mark Valladares appeals for the Coalition to recognise the human consequences of its fiscal actions: 'if only the Coalition could express itself better in terms of what steps it is taking to ameliorate the impact of spending cuts for those in most need, we might be rather more enthusiastic in our defence of, and support for, it.'

Jack of Kent on how he defines liberalism. Feel free to join the discussion on the comments thread....