Greetings from the beach. It seems more like silent season than silly season, it has all gone very quiet. Random blog stat – the average reader spends 2 minutes and 11 seconds on the blog. Anyway if you were not one of the 54,333 visitors viewing 245,185 pages over the last seven days, here are the seven most popular stories (in order of popularity) that you missed:

• Hughes’s Ego Explodes
• The Danish Domiciled Dodger
• The Candidate To Beat
• Big Society Watches Your Drinking
• Crash and Burnham
• All Must Have Prizes
• How to Judge the Coalition in 2015 : Did they Fix Society?

You’re either in front of Guido, or you are behind…