Iain Dale: Can we now put signs up all over Britain, saying: “LibDems: losing here”?

Plus: My partner votes for a nutter. Downing Street disasters. West Ham’s agony. The gifted Suzanne Evans. And finally: What I might do to really, really annoy you…

Sunder Katwala: The Ukippers you can talk to – and those that you can’t

About half fall into the ‘engageable’ and about half into the ‘rejectionist’ category, according to British Future’s analysis of polling and research.

UKIP and the media – a passionate, stormy affair which could come to a sticky end

Newspapers that once flirted with Farage now denounce him – claiming it’s a LibLabCon plot misses the point.

WATCH: UKIP spin doctor intervenes to halt Farage interview

“Is Patrick O’Flynn a friend in the media or a member of the political class?”

In which J.Alfred Prufrock MP has a strange encounter with Nick Clegg

The Deputy Prime Minister is under some strain.

Iain Dale: I’ll vote for Ford and Hannan – but not Andreasen, Ashworth, Van Orden or Campbell-Bannerman

Why I’ll have Nick Griffin on my show. Why I won’t have Mo Ansar on my show. And: the duplicity of Conservative MPs

Romanian and Bulgarian immigration: no-one really knows anything (yet)

Are migrants rushing over from Eastern Europe? Or is the rush over? Today’s figures raise as many questions as they answer.

Farage sells out to Cameron, principal agent of the EUSSR

The UKIP leader suggests that his party may keep the Prime Minister in Downing Street after the next election.

The French point out that we have far less to worry about than they do: we do not belong to the euro

French residents in London prefer Cameron’s politics to Farage’s.

Lord Ashcroft: With only one year to go, here’s what the parties need to do

The next General Election is only a year away. Politicians should be treating the voters as grown-ups.

Stephen Tall: The Party that I really want to join

A mixed economy, an internationalist country, live and let live – the ideals I’d like to see it stand for.

Downing Street’s plan for the television debates – the pros and cons

Today’s papers report that Team Cameron has struck on a format for next year’s television debates. Should the UKIP leader really be included?

John Walsh: ToryBoy – the aftermath (or: the Town That Politics Forgot…)

My film revealed a Middlesbrough in which tribal politics and voting patterns had imprisoned its people.

UKIP thrives because the man in the pub feels it will not be cowed into silence

On the eastern fringes of London, drinkers worried by immigration reckon that Farage speaks for them.

Iain Dale: A coming-in party for Nigel Evans

Plus: Lay off Farage. How the Lobby messed up over Newark. Paxman: my sorrow. And: runners and riders for Newsnight.