Classic @jamesgraham rip-up of Cameron on Lisbon

Great post by Sunder Katwala: "We look forward to both David Cameron and the Labour first-past-the-post campaign making the case that John and Edward should now be declared X Factor winners. But I think it is right that you need to win a majority to have the X-Factor - and suggest it is a principle from which Westminster might learn."

Ali C. is becoming an absolute must-read Labour blogger for me (though I hate his blog design): this is a fantastic piece, nailing Cameron's image obsession, and his bigger, strategic failure on Europe.

Oh noes the Lisbon treaty has been ratified. J Clive Matthews collects the story of the end of civilisation from twitter.

"Ultimately, modern science poses a lot of uncomfortable questions about to what extent we can be said to exert free will. We need to engage with that debate not merely wrap ourselves in Victorian philosophy and hope it will go away."

Nick Griffin in his own words...

Brilliant expose of media double-standards

Patrick Murray calls for the Lib Dems to stick to their principles in the immigration debate.

"... modern popular journalism, which is dominated by a celebrity-obsessed agenda, is too often guilty of reporting serious issues as if they are entertainment." And it's seeping into news, with journalists and politicians symbiotically conspiring to dumb-down quickest and hardest.

Oooh, it's like a Christmas grotto for WP techno-geeks.