Over the weekend I did some diligent pruning and re-ordering of my RSS feeds, before sloughing through the 700+ posts that had accumulated in my reader.  Hours of entertainment.  The good news is that my 'Britain Today' posts will now have much more emphasis on the 'Today', rather than, as they have been, 'Britain about this time last week'. 

The time zone difference (since I'm in the Southern hemisphere, I am writing from Britain Today's tomorrow), I can do nothing about.  And Posterous is keen on catapulting me even further into the future.  But all of the temporal disorder is ever so anthropology of time. 

With all of that Britain Today Tomorrow promising, first up is an article from last week.  (Or is it from Shakespeare's England?)  Hops, Horseheads and Horsepower: A Highly Selective History of Beer by Adrian Teal. 

The Pope has been and done the Newman thing and then Poped off again, so to counter all this Catholicism, here's Eddie Izzard imagining the Anglican Inquisition: Cake or Death?  (h/t Liturgy)

Andrew Rawnsley has a new paperback of his The End of the Party coming out, and the Observer are carrying an Exclusive! Extract!  This should satiate all your needs for a narrative re-telling of the post-election 'negotiations' between Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg (neither should be confused with the Pope or Eddie Izzard, although I would like to see The Phone Call animated in Lego). 

Nick Clegg has had the Lib Dem conference to contend with, poor dear (you do it to yourself, you do, that's why it really hurts).  Jackie Ashley has a perceptive take on his role in government ... and the Lib Dem future. 

Now, I must go, because I am accidentally listening to Alison Moyet.