Fab 5: Monday 1 February 2010

A new month, a new week, a new Fab 5 for your consumption:

  • Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, has learned that Parliament will vote next week on taking some initial steps towards an overhaul of the British electoral system.
  • The Guardian reprints the text of an address Pope Benedict XVI gave to the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales in which he criticises the UK’s equality laws.
  • Iraqi President Jalal Talabani writes for the Guardian on his thoughts about the old Iraq, and the new.
  • Tom Harris MP thinks the latest poll figures have spooked CCHQ and the blogosphere right.
  • Finally, Paul Waugh blogs about the increasing importance of the female vote in the forthcoming national poll.