Paul Burgin is the moderator of Mars Hill and is, amongst other things, a volunteer press officer for the North East Hertfordshire CLP and training for the lay ministry in the Methodist Church. The blog post he is most porud of is the one where he demanded Pater Hain's resignation because of the interest it generated and because he says he tried to be balanced about it. Another favourite is his post on women bishops.

Paul [to International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander]: What are we doing right now with regard to the campaign for "Education for All" by 2015, how are we going about it with regards to the Fast Track Initiative, and what are the contingency plans? Given some of the ttething problems, would it not be better to take advice from the World Economic Forum and for the next Budget to put more money into helping the Fast Track Initiative?

Stay tuned ...

• As a time limit is put on data held on the DNA database following a court ruling, Jonathan Myerson comes out in favour of the principle (via Kerry McCarthy);
• All change at Labour List! Delboy has definitely shuffled off this blogospheric coil as Iain Dale revealed yesterday. Alex Smith has taken over and his statement of intent is here;
• It's Hazel-tastic on the blogosphere today: Matthew Parris reveals that he's a fan, and Luke Akehurst gets a surprise visitor;
• A new direction for think-tank Demos? The Liberal Conspiracy has more but I wouldn't break out the champagne just yet ... their recent pamphlet on "community networks" and the like had the definite whiff of negative liberty about it, which is of course the driving philosophy behind Cameron's Conservatives (and maybe the Liberal Conspiracy, come to that). With the Tories in the ascendency, is it possible that Demos are looking to secure future funding streams by toeing the party political line? That said, I've only read the introduction, so it may well be mere conjecture on my part. So I'll shut up;
• ... and Cameron's performance at PMQs draws criticism from an unexpected quarter.

• The Home Office's "least wanted" list sparks debate. The Red Box's Sam Coates listens in to a programme hosted by one of the chaps from the list who is all, "bring me the head of Jacqui Smith!" Frank Owen's Paintbrush is not in mourning at what Blighty is potentially missing out on, although the said gentleman's book on "Psychological Nudity" and thoughts on homosexuals look like they are a cracking read. If you're that way inclined;
• John Rentoul raises a glass to the crack squad of spinners behind the Gord's latest photo-op;
• It was Committee-tastic in the Commons yesterday (well, it always is but yesterday it was interesting) with the Culture, Media, and Sport Committee taking evidence from Ian Hislop and others on the state of modern churnalism. Follow the TiP link (above) to listen to the News of the Screws dude strangled attempts to defend trouser-rubbing reportage of sex scandals as in the public interest;
• The Sun is TOTALLY against domestic violence, as long as it's against a man reports Anton Vowl;
• ... and Nadine Dorries MP is on Question Time this week. Horse tranquilisers on standby ...

• The Labour wing is also in retrospective mood. Paul Burgin and Tom Harris get their teeth into a 1979 meme, Don Paskini wonders how the Tories got their reputation for economic competence in the face of all of the available evidence, and the chaps at Frank Owen's Paintbrush have been watching the BBC Thatch-a-thon and reveal that Dimbers was trying to pull the ol' "good golly, I'm a bumbling national institution!" schtick even then;
• Is Hazel Blears' intervention the beginning of the end for the Gord? A Very Public Sociologist thinks not;
• Hopi Sen has a Blairite defence of Gordon Brown;
• John Rentoul fisks Jackie Ashley (there's an image) on the BNP;
• Am I the only one muttering "bah, humbug!" in response to the Evening Standard's pisspoor "sorry campaign"? The Liberal Conspiracy seems to love it - probably because it feeds into the "everyone is evil and must apologise to ME" narrative so beloved of media commentators and bloggers of recent years;
• ... and Anton Vowl looks at the Daily Mail's coverage of sexual violence trials passim to find out just who, and in what circumstances, it's okay to rape.

• Paul Sagar at the Liberal Conspiracy on the "brain drain";
• The expenses vote is on today, people. Mike Smithson has concerns for the Gord, whilst Conservative Laurence Robertson outlines his priorities;
• I was alerted - via an audible grinding of teeth coming from the direction of my colleague - to Rod Liddle's latest word salad on TEH EVIL FEMINAZIS;
• ... and well done to Hopi Sen for coining the term "self absorbed  little poncebag" to describe Giles Coren, and RecessMonkey for some truly appalling swine fever gags.