Stats! Stats! No, bear with us, this might be important.... There's been a right old bunfight over the claimed stats of Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes this morning. Leading the charge: well-informed obsessive Tim Ireland. He's jumped on a screengrab Iain Dale's put up of his Google Analytics stats (available… read more…

Dizzy takes up our refrain that more Civil Servant bloggers would be a good, not a bad, thing, with a useful list of tips for civil service bloggers. We particularly liked : Gender switch your blogging personality, as well as changing your age Now we have this image of Dizzy… read more…

It's tough for pig farmers at the moment, but at least their march on London today is making it easy for headline writers. : Hundreds of farmers are to hold a demonstration at Westminster to protest at the falling price of pork. Farmers' leaders say the industry is in "meltdown",… read more…

A snapshot of Britain in 2007: Leslie Ash, actress, is awarded £5 million by the NHS Litigation Authority (without going to court, apparently), after contracting a form of MRSA at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Meanwhile on the other side of the social fence, several hundred soldiers have been awarded around… read more…