Be interesting to see what happens to UKIP if they get invited to a leader's debate come 2015.

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

Of course, we'll still be destroyed today, but hey-ho. Blair lost 17 councils and 550+ councillors at the 2000 locals then won big in the 2001 GE.

2000 locals were different batch of seats.

Sun YouGov poll: Lab 39%, Tory 33%, UKIP 13%, LD 10%.

Labour lead at 6 points in the age of 'evil Tory cuts'. Brilliant.

And you need to be like 8 points clear to win a majority. Good luck.

Electoral Calculus with those figures gives a Labour majority of 74 and UK Polling Report a majority of 78; neither of these have an explicit option for UKIP, but the Tories will lose more to UKIP than Labour.

Remember Labour got a majority of 66 on a 3 point victory in 2005.

You forgot to mention Angry Birds.

Would you want a brothel on your Main Street?

Oh I forgot we can't actually cut anything. We have to pretend we are cutting the increase in deficit. Otherwise, we all die. Got it.

How would you feel about cutting "defense" spending?

There are certain areas of it that can go - you can eliminate the bulk of your strategic nukes and just rely on 8 or so SSBNs.

£7.45 (up to £8.55 in London), rather than the minimum wage of £6.19.

I'm not to happy with a promise of tax breaks across the board; the notion that the living wage needs to be 'encouraged' just seems more customary spinelessness from our politicians - it should become the mandated minimum wage Labour promises in 2015, with any talk of tax breaks limited to a minority of businesses that can prove they couldn't financially withstand it.

Carrots are better than sticks generally - best to try persuasion first.

Foreign aid, in total, is 2% of the budget.

Also, if it wasn't for foreign aid, you would have even more immigrants.

Does the US really need to have the ATF, Marshal Service, Secret Service and FBI? Would it not be better (and cheaper) to combine them under one command?

If this is true, it is time to intervene.

Ideally no PM should have one, but if Maggie can have one, Blair should definitely have one. Precedent.

She was a rare combination, uncompromising and effective. 

She remade the UK.

That is a statement we can all agree on, whether we like that remaking or not.

I will accept that Lord Liverpool was worse.

I think you can add Baldwin and Eden to the list as well.

I didn't like Mrs Thatcher, but some of the reaction is overdoing it. She's not the worst PM we've ever had, not by a long shot.

My view on abortion is the same as Tony Blair's - it should be legal, safe and rare.

If the West remained neutral, then he would have been in a situation analogous to Assad in Syria: Sectarian civil war in which he was the leader of a minority sectarian group.  As with Syria, the Iraqi military would have more advanced military equipment than anything the Shiite (Sunni in the case of Syria) rebel groups would be able to muster, so he could effectively be the head of the "largest militia in Iraq" for many years, which is essentially what's happening with Assad in Syria.

Agree - if there had been no invasion and no finding of WMD, international sanctions would have fallen apart. The Russians and Chinese would have been willing to sell Saddam advanced fighters - Gaddafi was about to buy Rafales from the French when that war started (and Rafales were the first over Libya).

This is assuming that the Arab Spring happens at all; there would be far less resentment against the US and US-backed leaders without Iraq.

International Paralympic Committee says all the paralympic athletes accounted for

Hopefully casualties end up being as low as possible and that there are no more bombings.

Boston Police say 2 dead, 22 injured.

BBC News feed

No

Tax day in Boston. Large gathering. Definitely not a random attack.

Not random. Boston Marathon would be a spectacular for anyone.

Only good thing about this location is that you've got a lot of first aiders and police there already.

Just chilling images coming out of Boston. I don't know what to think, but thoughts and prayers with everyone affected.

Sky News reports Boston airspace has been closed.

If this is indeed an attack, I'd have to think that it's domestic.

It's not a suicide bombing, but Islamists haven't always done that.