Mayorwatch directs us to a new Metropolitan Police Authority questionnaire inviting Londoners to set out their priorities for London's policing. Kit Malthouse is quoted on the press release:

NBA contests in London may give the game greater exposure, but what will be left for British basketball once the circus leaves town?

Nick Watt and guests discuss the worldwide praise for Gordon Brown's bank bail-out plan. Plus David Davis on the defeat of the 42-day detention plan

I hope George Osborne was watching Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling's Downing Street press conference this morning. In complaining that Brown ought to be blamed for his part in the global financial crisis, the shadow chancellor seems, for once, to be missing the point. Think Port Stanley, George, think Falkland…

As the government's counter-terrorism proposals continue to bite the dust the Home Office is casting its net wider in its attempts to win hearts and minds by creating the post of Communities Advisor. The job is not for the faint-hearted.

Will the timing of the government's climbdown on 42-day detention for terrorist suspects lessen the political fallout?