Row over Alastair Campbell on BBC Question Time panel

What's the difference between being lonely and a loner?

In graphics: Eurozone in crisis

Global recession timeline. Here.

Queen opens Parliament. Bills here.

Cameron's firsts et of constitutional changes.

Fixed terms and a 55% threshold for a dissolution of parliament. On the BBC here.

This today as Cameron vists Scotland, in his first week as Premier and the start of his 'respect' approach to the Union.

See my post re Cameron and the union with Scotland here to compare.

From the BBC here, a graph from Ipsos Mori.

(Click on graph to enlarge.)

Hava Nagilah, What Is It? from Katahdin Productions on Vimeo.

From the BBC's website. A set of pictures of Gordon Brown's last hours in Downing Street. Pictures here. And a short film clip here.

And here, the new cabinet arrives.

A quote from Dave Winer, here:

Corporations rise from entrepreneurship, get established, defend their turf, and give way to new corporations that rise from entrepreneurship, etc etc.

Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, IBM, DEC, Compaq, HP, Lotus, Sun, Netscape, Google, Twitter. Over the years they come and go, and they never solve problems. They die off and the next generation of tech companies solve them.

Full text of LibCon coalition agreement. Here.

Seen this on the BBC:

A bold statement - almost - from Conservative blogger Iain Dale. He suggests "the era of spin", if not dead, might at least be a much weakened beast. "I'm not saying it's over, but I don't think we're going to get Mandelson/Campbell again."

Really!

We'll see about that.

Newspaper endorsements, general election eve 2010. From here.

Daily Mail: “Why we must vote DECISIVELY to stop Britain walking into disaster … and give the Tories their chance.”
Sun: Alongside a picture of topless page-three girls: “Sixteen Page 3 girls in all their glory represent the very image of freedom in this country. But if Labour or the Lib Dems win the election, this could be the last time they are allowed to pose together.”
Independent: “There is a strong case for progressively minded voters to lend their support to the Liberal Democrats wherever there is a clear opportunity for that party to win.”
Daily Telegraph – Conservatives
Sunday Telegraph – Conservatives
Daily Express – Conservatives
News of the World – Conservatives
Guardian – Liberal Democrats
Times – Conservatives
Sunday Times – Conservative
Economist – Conservatives
Independent on Sunday – Liberal Democrats
Observer – Liberal Democrats
Mail on Sunday – Conservatives
Financial Times – Conservatives
Mirror – Labour, but urging tactical voting for Lib Dems

Some great election graphs here

The approximate amount of energy used for a keystroke.

This post on a Google blog says that changing the UK Google Mail domain name from 'googlemail' to 'gmail' will:

...save approximately 60 million keystrokes a day. At about 217 microjoules per keystroke, that's about the energy of 20 bonbons saved every day!

A Tory nightmare scenario. Andrew Sullivan here.

A great comment from John Prescott:

Former Deputy PM John Prescott has some tongue-in-cheek words of sympathy for the night-workers who have met David Cameron on his marathon pre-polling trip around Britain. He tweets: "It's hard enough working nights but to have someone repeatedly shouting 'change' at you must get on your nerves!"

( from the BBC)

Enough sleep is important. Very. But not too much.

Here.

Who pays for weddings and what presents do newlyweds want? Here.

Michael Gove in an interview re 'The Big Society', here on the Today program.

Not impressed. Very wooly. Will not stand the test of time. Makes me rather apprehensive of a Conservative overall majority.

And note my post here.