Nick Clegg claims today that the coalition government should be judged in 5-years as opposed to 100 days. This shows how much he's fallen for the Tories obsession with the national deficit.

It really did have all the spectacle of 2005 and then some.

I say this, however, having never seen a second of the action.

'District 9' - a smart, polemical science-fiction film based in South Africa - has been styled as a documentary-style allegory on the reactions of a community to foreign visitors in need of refuge.

With the news that Channel 4 are compiling votes (from where, exactly?) to assemble the 'Greatest 10 TV Programmes' since the millenium, The Guardian asked bloggers to nominate their favorites, and are now polling a list themselves.