On Liberty (and what it costs)

BONG! Brown's speech on liberty has generated much comment. Sunny asks why we just can't have a codified constitution, Peter Kenyon queries whether he should practice what he preaches with regard to the Labour Party, and Boulton and Co. aren't that impressed. No pleasing some people, eh?

BONG! MPs' expenses are out on PA news, but not much outraged comment as yet. The prize of a shiny penny and yesterday's Hansard goes to the reader who emails in the best article/blog post on how politicians are using this money as splints to set fire to constituency correspondence.

BONG! Jack Straw announces measures to review protests in Parliament Square. Since the protesters have been pitched there since 2003, this strikes Westmonster as merely slapping a Eurocamp sticker on the tents of trespassers, but it'll doubtless go down well with the Not In My Name types.