Although my heart sank at the headline, this is actually quite a good piece at turning abstruse electoral reform arguments into an issue people can relate to.

"... in the build-up to the election Clegg's pro-European, anti-Westminster, redistributive liberalism gives him an authentic and distinctive voice. At least he knows his voice will be heard when not so long ago it seemed as if he'd be drowned out by the clamour of the two bigger parties. We will have to wait and see whether he will take it, but he has a chance."

In other news, water caught flowing downhill and cows have been caught eating grass. You can catch Chris Grayling on BBC iPlayer talking about this, by which I mean squirming out of the fact that he's blatantly just been lying through his teeth.

Mark Easton takes apart the use of misleading and inaccurate crime statistics by the Conservatives - even after they were told their figures are wrong

A great summing up: "When it came to Iraq, Tony Blair was a combination of passionate conviction and cavalier disregard for detail. It was that fatal marriage which explains so much of what went so wrong."

A generous and well deserved post about Duncan on his 50th birthday.

Twatt Twardman twents his twustration.

Sounds sensible to me!

An excellent fisk of the "broken Britain" narrative.

Excellent post about how Parliament behaved over the Iraq war