Brian Monteith: UKIP’s poll performance in Scotland is encouraging for unionists

The numbers suggest a way in which Cameron and Osborne might undo Miliband in 2015.

WATCH: Farage announces he doesn’t want to run in Newark

Having flirted with the idea, the UKIP leader beats a hasty retreat.

Iain Dale: UKIP’s European election posters are disgusting

Plus: Shapps will be Tory Chairman until the election. The Church of England is a left-wing sect. Philomena. Current Affairs. And: Pamela Parker, In Memoriam.

Clegg & Farage, partners

The two are co-operating in trying to boost their votes at Cameron’s expense.

Stephen Tall: Of protest voting, loss aversion – and why the status quo usually wins

Lessons from voting behaviour applied to this year’s Scottish referendum – and a future EU one.

John Stevens: The unity of the Conservatives is now a threat to the unity of the country

The hanging-together of the Tories has become an obstacle to creating a new patriotic consciousness

Confessions of an anti-UKIP shape-shifting lizard

The Times’s reporting of Farage’s allowance claims will scarcely dent his party’s standing among those who support it.

Henry Hill: Farage challenges Salmond to debate ‘true independence’ – from the EU

Also: Former UUP leader slams compensation award against PSNI; Red Road flats saved by protests; and ‘van bomb’ found in Co Tyrone.

LISTEN: Nigel Farage defends himself from allegations of expenses abuse

The UKIP leader says claims in The Times are “utterly outrageous”.

Why Sir Ian Kennedy gets a fail for his homework

MPs will always mark theirs – and everyone else’s, since we vote them in. Which is why Sir Ian’s new idea makes no sense.

Iain Dale: Vince Cable – the worst Business Secretary since Stephen Byers

Plus: Two funerals and me. My life as an Agony Uncle. Why Grayling is wrong about prison books. Sympathy for Mark Menzies. And finally: My mother’s pride.

WATCH: Nick Clegg, AKA Tim Stanley, debates Nigel Farage, AKA Tim Stanley

In case you don’t have time to watch the real debate, here are all the arguments in advance.

Sir Gerald Howarth MP: Why Farage is foolish to pander to Putin

The UKIP leader’s remarks about the Russian president should ring alarm bells.

WATCH: Farage v Clegg. Who won?

Views from Eastleigh.

Ten lessons from the Farage v Clegg debate

It was about votes in May, not victory on the night.