First task of the new Libyan regime must be to get all. sides to agree on correct spelling of Gaddafi.

There's a little think bubble over Will Self's head: Litotes? Zeugma? Plenipotentiary? Lepidopterist? Exigencies? No, play it safe. Synergy.

I hope Keith Vaz realised that Jacintha Saldanha's family may not appreciate the "full facts" as she tried to commit suicide when with them.

@daaronovitch butting in again, but isn't "democratic neoliberal" an oxymoron? Can you name a democratic neoliberal state? @davidosler

http://flyingrodent.blogspot.com/ @flying_rodent has Guido Fawkes' number. Splendid stuff.

RT @glinner Still trying to get my head round this http://t.co/piTbbla #notw #murdoch < & this: http://t.co/7x9C3VX How could Brooks go?

http://bit.ly/b6HOOr Jay Rayner on Toby Young: "an act of self-delusion so magisterial it deserves to have prose poems written about it"

"I can't fly on this plane, there's a white guy in the next seat. He could be a terrorist." We're not going to hear this, are we?

So Labour opposes Tory #austerity but won't spend more. How does that work?

@greenrd they don't mention 'Coom' (spelling?) valley where the dwarves are. Cwm is Welsh for valley.

@inthefade no, just big sunglasses. So they never find what they've been looking for.

@jackseale @busty1956 is Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr) who abstained just a bloke with a Muslim name then? Or is tehgrauniad wrong?

@jonnelledge this is even better:  http://www.debbieschlussel.com/50789/uk-sun-telegraph-attack-schlussel-for-exposing-boy-band-jihad-fraud-zuhdi-jasser-defends-jihad/ … Schussel finds Islam supporters among The Sun, The Torygraph, and Daniel Pipes.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/09/jacintha-saldanha-hoax-call-india … "nor given … any clue that she had been under any pressure or strain." Apart from 2 suicide attempts.

RT @gwenhwyfaer Wow. Is this Melanie Philips … outing herself as a racist?  http://tl.gd/k9fj4u  (link is SFW as not an actual Mel article)

Christ, Manchester's been blessed with some incredible bands  http://youtu.be/51OB2YoC4sg   http://youtu.be/INgXzChwipY 

@questingvole @sarahditum @helenlewis @daaronovitch phrase "confederacy of dunces" springs to mind. Am no fan of NW, but look at yrselves.

Saw Osborne booed by Paralympic audience. Saw him fawned by Andrew Marr. Bring back Robin Day http://t.co/OJIvJqkM (this never gets old).

@jonnelledge you don't need reshuffles for that. That's the status quo.

@sarahditum @tiggertherese nothing has convinced me of the NECESSITY of nationalisation as repeated travesties of private-sector competition