Labour choose an immensely mickeytakeable slogan, and Stephen very quickly and brilliantly takes the mickey.

Stephen shares his locker room experiences in the light of a typically bigoted e-mail from US homophobes.

"... 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."

A call for libertarian bloggers to grapple with the Big Issues - education, foreign policy, social services - and drop their alcohol/gambling/smoking "get out of my room Mom!" obsessions.

We all know it's fair and gives voters most choice, but James shows how STV is pretty too.

I have a dream: 20 prime ministers in 10 years. Yes, to stop politicians screwing up our lives, we need weak government

Bullying helpline chief breaches callers confidentiality

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

Mark Pack makes a very good argument for why politicians' principles and personalities should matter in how we decide to vote.

"We have now failed to stand a candidate in three out of eighteen by-elections in 2010. If we had failed to stand a similar number of PPCs at the 2005 election, then a total of 105 seats would have been completely uncontested. The ALDC’s advice on this will never change: always, always, always stand a candidate."