In which the comrades go down in the polls. Again.

Martin Ivens gives an update on what the issues are on the still-going race for the LibDem leadership, and there are suggestions that Huhne's closing in on Nicky's lead. 

This cloyingly sycophantic profile of Barbara Amiel wins the Most Unintentionally Hilarious Article award for today. On a similar subject, this interview with Jonathan Aitken is fascinating if only for the apparent Damascene conversion on the part of the former disgraced Minister.

The "unifying theme of chaos" in Number Ten is examined by Iain Martin in the Telegraph, who concludes that the administration is set for a "Shakespearian ending," which presumably means that in the bloodbath of internecine war, everybody gets killed and Bob Marshall-Andrews becomes PM. Think on, people.

Meanwhile Henry Porter is joined by some co-frothers in his predictably tedious weekly rant on how The State has enslaved us all: Simon Jenkins' article about "police states" is almost indistinguishable from Porter's usual offering, whilst celebrity victim Rachel North informs us that "as a 7/7 survivor, I know Gordon Brown is wrong on terror." Right. As yet the Times have failed to get back to Westmonster on her offer to write an article entitled "As I once went to school I know what's best in terms of education policy."

And headline of the day goes to the Sunday Telegraph with: "Woman, 102, strips for nude charity calendar."