A late but perhaps decisive entry for most astonishing favourable media coverage of the week comes courtesy of – make sure you’re sitting down – Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail, commenting on yesterday’s fiery Iraq debate in which both opposition leaders renewed the call for a public enquiry:

But the Opposition leader who seized the attention yesterday was Nick Clegg of the LibDems.

It was a good way for him to mark his first anniversary in charge of his party. The year has not always been easy but yesterday he soared.

Mr Clegg came in for a lot of argy-bargy from Labour and Conservative hecklers. They only made him ballsier.

He accused Mr Brown of producing ‘an extraordinarily rosy account’ of the Iraq business.

Indeed, at one point Mr Brown had spoken of the ‘continuing gratitude’ the Iraqi people felt towards Britain for ‘freeing Iraq from tyranny’.

Such gush may be okay for propaganda broadcasts on the wireless but it is not really acceptable in an adult debating chamber.

On clattered Cleggster, citing the opinion of one Barack Obama that Iraq was ‘a dumb war’.

Labour didn’t like that. Mr Clegg accused Labour of conducting the conflict ‘in secret, unaccountable, behind closed doors’ and concluded: ‘They let Britain down.’

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And then Speaker Martin called, ‘Charles Kennedy’, and it was like being dragged back eight years.

Ex-LibDem leader Kennedy, plumper, pinker, pointed out that it was ‘fundamentally remiss’ of Mr Brown not to have referred in his statement to the Iraqi dead ‘who most shamefully the Americans and ourselves have not even bothered to count’.

He spoke with the voice of an ancient mariner. ‘No bodycount, no names,’ said Mr Kennedy.

He did not need to shout or gesture. A staining reproach before Christmas, it was formidably well put.

“Cleggster”? Has my meme worked? You can find Clegg and Kennedy’s full contributions to the debate in Hansard, and Clegg’s I think I’ll give you in full: