It is never a woman’s fault if she is raped: not if she’s drunk, not if she’s sober, not if she’s standing on a table wearing a thong and baby oil. The responsibility for rape lies, always and only, with the minority of men who rape. Laurie Penny, Liberal Conspiracy.

Stephen Greenhalgh, Leader of Hammersmith & Fulham Council and head of the Conservative “Councils Innovation Unit” let rip at a round table event run by Public Finance Magazine and Zurich Municipal, saying, “My mates are all in the shadow Cabinet, waiting to get those [ministerial] boxes, being terribly excited. I went to university with them, they haven’t run a piss-up in a brewery… They’re going to get a department of state, in one case running the finances of the nation”.

In a prophetic expectation of Tory doom, Greenhalgh added “If you’re going to fail, fail running Alabama, fail running Texas, fail running the city of Paris – don’t just take over the country.” Recess Monkey

Cameron is not hiding his £10bn worth of tax cuts that suck wealth upwards from poorer to richer.

Raising inheritance tax thresholds to £2m for couples costs £1.2bn, money from the Treasury to the top 2%. Non-doms will pay, Cameron says, but official figures show the tiny £25,000 contributions from the likes of Goldsmith will cover only a fraction of the cost.

Cameron’s marriage tax allowance will cost the Treasury £4.9bn. Who benefits? The richest will get 13 times more than the poorest. He dare not ditch it when the Daily Mail’s leader column is sending out blasts about the “worrying noises” they hear. “What could be more important than standing up for marriage?” they warn him.

His third pledge is to abolish the new 50p tax rate – not while public sector pay is frozen in their first year but soon, in the first term. That will put money back into the pockets of just the top 1%. Less headline grabbing – but of great value to the wealthy – Cameron promises to uncap tax relief on top pensions – a bonanza for the top 1.5% who already have splendid pensions. Taken together, never in the history of postwar taxation will so many citizens be obliged to pay so much to so few. Polly Toynbee, The Guardian.