The keenly observant amongst you will have noticed that this blog hasn’t had my full attention this week. There’s been work to do, not least of which because I’ve been helping set up another blog which will be launching soon – more on this soon, I hope.

Normal service shall be resumed shortly. Missed loads of interesting stories, but my favourite – in a makes-me-so-angry-I-want-to-puke sort of way was the “There’s no money left” joke note left for David Laws. Cos, hey, that’s hilarious. Yep.

I also want to get stuck into the Labour Leadership contest to discover what non-Labourites need to know about Next Labour. I’m still convinced we’re going to see a much more aggressively anti-immigration, anti-EU, anti-Market Labour Party which will attempt to rebuild that core vote. Is David Miliband the right man for that job? I don’t think so.

In other news we got the full Programme For Government published, which needs some picking over. That probably won’t happen on this blog – I’ve never been a policy wonk and I don’t intend to start now – but did I mention there’s another blog starting up? Perhaps that’ll be of help. Who knows?