Provocative title, provocative post.

Nick Clegg's "shopping list" is all fine and dandy, but he's left out the most important item. Duncan Stott explains more.

The Social Liberal Forum blog is back, with an excellent post explaining why the proposed financial transaction tax is a bad idea from a liberal perspective. (Oh, and a funny title!)

Sara Bedford, highlighting an important omission by ConHome when reporting on Lab-Con marginals.

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

Good list of tips, applicable more widely than just to Labour bloggers

The rearing secrets of the Duffetts revealed! Good little article about how nobody knows anything about raising children and shouldn't pretend to.

SNP wheels are coming off as a senior councillor defects to the Lib Dems

“Where you fit in: your personal guide to whether Conservatives think that bribing you is the right thing to do”

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."