It wouldn't be a Monday morning on the blog if we didn't treat you to a Chris Riddell cartoon bonanza.
And there's a great Rover news story to go with it - one that soared into the Observer site traffic charts over the weekend. (Regular readers know the trouble we've had with our Traffic-o-meter and will be reassured to hear that normal service is resumed.)
That, of course, means the return of that great Monday game: look at what people have been reading over the weekend and marvel at how much more they care about Michael Jackson than about anything else. With the possible exception of meltdown in Sino-Japanese relations. The front page splash - an exclusive story revealing Home Office documents that rubbish the government's own crime plans - just scraped the top ten, behind Mark and Gaby's great report into the absurd mythology of asylum seeker overload on the south coast.
We're pleased to see that story getting big traffic, or rather, it's nice to think that some facts about the real volume of asylum applicants and the state of British border controls (small and rigorous respectively) might jostle their way into the public debate alongside the hysterical scare stories preferred by some of our esteemed press colleagues.
