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Over on Comment is Free: The generous interpretation is that Clegg, like both Kennedy and Ashdown before him, needs to fight a general election before he can expect to acquire a decent public profile. Broadly speaking, I happen to still believe that.

Polly Toynbee shows her true partisan colours in jaw-dropping style in today's Guardian column:"Even if unemployment reaches 3 million, that still leaves 90% in secure jobs..." - Polly Toynbee

So have you got yours yet? Your copy of Chinese Democracy, of course, the long awaited Guns N' Roses album that's been long awaited by everyone who makes a habit of waiting a long time for long-awaited Guns N' Roses albums...More eagerly anticipated guitar heroics, and Nabokov and Jerry Lewis,

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"This refusal to think about the interaction between good intentions and perverse consequences has long been a blindness of the left." - Jenni Russell What's she talking about? Go take a look - you might be surprised...

Yesterday, I posted about 3 underlying principles of right-wing/libertarian thought, specifically that individual people are 'rational actors', are responsible for their own actions and determine their own destiny. I also inquired as to whether or not everyone to at least some degree shares these core convictions.

I’ve written another Comment is Free article on this very subject: Make no mistake: this election is no shoo-in for either candidate. They are both extremely strong contenders. At its heart, it has become quickly apparent that this election, more than any other in recent years, is going to be about what the Liberal Democrats are for.

Julie Bindel, the centre of the recent Trans protests against Stonewall, this weekend published her response to the protests, and in doing so has managed to offend not only the trans community but practically everyone who does not identify as exclusively heterosexual.

I'm ready to be hoist by my own petard on this one, as it is an old story - but I haven't seen it reported anywhere: the Guardian has started publishing a sectional breakdown of its traffic figures. The Guardian has started breaking its web traffic figures down by the various sections of its website:

The Guardian’s Comment is Free website and Soundings magazine are organising a series of debates on the theme of After New Labour: Who owns the progressive future?. Some of the contributions are making it online.