…here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the bank holiday weekend.
Fraser Nelson charts the rise and fall of David Laws.
James Forsyth laments a disaster for British public life, and ponders the Labour leadership contest.
David Blackburn considers the attendant irony in Lord Prescott, and thinks the Telegraph’s latest expenses campaign is misjudged.
Daniel Korski offers some names for Downing Street to consider for its defence council.
Rod Liddle fought the laws and the laws won.
And Melanie Phillips condemns an attempted terrorist outrage.

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