Guido’s operatic eyes and ears report that Nick Clegg spent last night’s performance of the Marriage of Figaro at the Royal Opera House seductively charming his wife in Spanish. New politics is clearly alive and well as he found time in the interval to smile and nod to his cultural fans. Meanwhile the coalition faced its first crisis weekend and you might have thought the Deputy Prime Minister would have been tending to his other marriage…

UPDATE :A little bordie tells Guido they were out celebrating that it was Miriam’s birthday.