While Dave and Nick grapple with the vital task of figuring out who'll put the phone down first on their next love-call, in London councils are grappling with the first direct consequence of the newly declared War On The Poor, who appear to have caused the credit crunch all by themselves.  Naughty old poor.  Alex has already covered the potential political consequences, what of the geographical ones?

So, what about that SDSR? I've just got around to reading it - it's not difficult, as it's possibly the lightest MOD document you'll ever meet. Seriously.

As a result, I have the honour to present probably the best thing ever blogged on British strategy - here. It's about Europe, America, Britain, the sea, the land, and much else.

There's also been a defence review. I've not read it yet. However, here's something interesting.

The CSR has decided to get rid of three RAF aircraft types - Harrier, Nimrod MRA4, and Sentinel R1. It was always on the cards that there would either be an accelerated out-of-service date for the Harriers, which are rumoured to need work to make it to the original 2018 deadline, or else reductions in the Tornado GR4 fleet.

"In fact what is striking is that the metanarrative that pervades every page of the Speccy cannot really be embraced by the Conservative front bench: chief whip Patrick McLoughlin has been enforcing the line that the Tories "don't want to do these cuts". " So says the BBC's Paul Mason.

After Philip Hammond's assault on "the war on motorists", to be carried out by creating bigger traffic jams, further evidence emerges that the organising principle of the coalition is government by vaguely remembered newspaper scare stories.

Here's an astonishingly servile interview with Michael Gove: