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Obviously many words need to be written on the implications for the coalition and the indeed the British constitution of the government's abandonment of Lords reform, with the result that the Lib Dems will block the redrawing of the constituency map—but not by me. For a starter I'm on holiday, and as a main I have little to add to my general outpourings over the past couple of years to the effect that while clearly someone should take on the very necessary job of of restructuring and cleaning up our politics, it should under no circumstances be this shower of utter

Anyway there are, frankly, more pressing matters to attend to around here: