"If you are not interested in the nexus of power and money in British politics, and in whether the people at the top keep their word, it seems to me you ought not to bother being a journalist (or edit a newspaper). This is without question a big story, and I am surprised to see the Telegraph and the Mail bury it on inside pages."

This highlights the hypocrasy of the Cameroons on the issue of Change

It's about time that someone actually tests claims of a "broken society" against the evidence. As Sunder Katwala says, "The Economist has nailed this pretty comprehensively this week". A surprising quote: "the average voter reckons that four out of ten teenagers have children, for instance, whereas in fact perhaps three in a hundred do."

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.

Tell me you're surprised...

Alarmed by rising house prices and personal debt, Vince Cable saw the recession coming long before his political opponents - and it turned out he had the solutions, too. So where does the Lib Dems' economics expert think we go from here?

Excellent debunking of the Express / ConHome list of 100 claims

... but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data. (Yup, once again it's the Daily Mail, not exactly the paper of choice for most civil liberties campaigners, leading the way with investigative reporting into the dangers to our civil liberties posed by the government.)

They haven't even fully launched it yet, but our worst fears are being confirmed (see the NO2ID Take Jane page: http://www.no2id.net/TakeJane/)

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.