Let’s get the recommendations out of the way first.
Over at Comment is Free, AC Grayling does a fine job of dismantling Tony Blair’s defence of ID cards, on which I’ll have a little more to say in due course. Henry Porter, writing on the same subject, is of course well worth reading too.
Meanwhile, Mr Eugenides [...]

One of the occasional joys of popping in to view Mad Mel’s latest bout of inchoate raving is that even when life conspires to throw her the kind of bone that should see her securely anchored on the safest of ground, she still manages to make a complete pigs ear of her arguments.
The target of [...]

Bob Piper notes Clare Short’s appearance in the Indy, answering readers’ questions and poses a question of his own…
Could you please explain how you campaign for a hung parliament and how I vote for one?
The answer, it seems, is that you just ask Tony Blair…
The one thing you cannot dispute, after the turnout at [...]