1. Why holding the Iraq inquiry is not a political mistake [2]

Next Left's Sunder Katwala challenges the conventional wisdom that the Iraq inquiry has backfired on Gordon Brown.

2. Voodoo corner [3]

UK Polling Report's Anthony Wells warns of the rise of "voodoo polls" -- open-access polls that do not make any attempt to gather a representative sample. Today's Mumsnet poll on voting intentions is a typical offender, he says.

3. MPs' lobbying links to be revealed [4]

The Times's Sam Coates says it's worth keeping an eye on a list revealing the identities of the lobbyists for whom MPs have hired rooms.

4. Social media's impact on politics, part one: the groups that face extinction [5]

Mark Pack at Liberal Democrat Voice discusses the "real impact" of social networking sites on politics.

5. Did Obama move health care forward? [6]

The New York Times's Room for Debate blog has a rolling discussion of the health-care overhaul -- where will it go from here, if anywhere? Harold Pollack, Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein have contributed so far.

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