Hang on. Is this classic reverse psychology? Does the Daily Mail actually WANT a hung parliament, for doubtless sinister reasons of its own?

Because it's hard to imagine that a major British newspaper could be edited by anyone SO stupid as to think this absurd, hysterical rubbish (based on an out-of-context quote EIGHT years old) could do anything but strengthen the feelings of anyone who's sick of the old Labour-Tory carve-up of this country. So let's help them, eh?

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Sure enough, it didn't take long for the UK's two big dinosaur parties – and the media – to react with fury to the unexpected Lib Dem surge.

We can but hope the curiously-proportioned bar graph and contradictory sets of figures are a biting satirical comment about the unreliability of opinion polls from Murdoch-controlled Sky News, but I fear that's a touch optimistic.

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No.1 – Barry Island

I can offer no explanation.

A number of commentators have in the last few days been attacking David Cameron for so actively pursuing the idea of live TV debates between the three "main" party leaders, on the grounds that – with the huge lead in the opinion polls the Tories had at the time the debates were agreed on – he had everything to lose and nothing to gain from tackling his opponents face to face in front of the nation.

To be strictly fair to Cameron, though (and I'm doing so purely as mental exercise), the debate wasn't theoretically such a bad idea.

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As it's a beautiful day and WoSblog should totally go to the seaside.

The deeply splendoo Sword Of Fargoal (normally £2.99) is free today.

THAT IS ALL.

WoSblog has a tips sections now? Blimey, who saw that coming?

Alert WoSblog viewers will have noticed the absence of posts for the last couple of days. This is because almost every moment of spare time during that period has been spent playing Espgaluda 2.

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Malcolm McLaren RIP. This is a version of a piece I originally wrote for WoS a few years ago, reprinted in tribute to one of the world's great chancers. The world would have been a much more interesting place if he'd managed to become the Mayor of London.

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On the face of it, it's a time for national rejoicing. After just 13 years in government, Gordon Brown has suddenly apparently discovered the secret of 100% employment – state jobs for all.

New Labour's latest attack on the voiceless poor is the stunning assertion that after 30 years of millions-long dole queues, it seems there was no need for anyone to be unemployed at all.

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Depressingly, of late we've still been at the stage in the development of the iPod as a gaming platform where the self-styled "hardcore" feel able to dismiss it as not being a "proper" games machine, claiming that it runs nothing but five-minute casual games. As of last Friday, that time is over.

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As part of my recent series of snack expeditions I was in a Tesco just outside Bristol on Friday, in which I noticed a new addition to their Tesco Value economy range that raised an eyebrow.

If you can't quite make out the writing, read on for a close-up.

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