Tim's Tip I was having a chat with Tim Montgomerie, he of Conservative Home, while waiting to go on 18 Doughty Street and he reckons the next big Labour blog thing is what's going to happen in the Labour Leadership contest.

Ok it's advice from a Tory but it would be foolhardy not to recognise that at the moment we are behind in the battle of the blogs and he is one of the right's leading practitioners.

The problem is the leadership election is looking incredibly boring. Brown wins, McDonnell loses shock. On that basis I would be voting for Gordon but if some member of the cabinet decided to develop some political if not anatomical testicles and set out their stall in a more progressive direction my vote and that of a great many Labour party members are still in play.  ¶ 12:56 pm