It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Opinion: It’s time for Nick Clegg to make the liberal case on drugs policy (31 comments) by Mark Thompson
2. It’s not just this Government that’s unpopular: it’s the idea of Coalition. Here’s what Lib Dems need to do about that. (62 comments) by Stephen Tall
3. Alistair Carmichael MP writes… Why I’ve put the whip away for the Equal Marriage vote (38 comments) by Alistair Carmichael MP
4. Equal marriage: it’s a matter of religious freedom (55 comments) by Mark Pack
5. Councillors’ home attacked and death threats – all because of a flag (47 comments) by The Voice

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. Am I the only non-Federalist European?
2. Multinationals and Corporate Tax
3. Liberal Democrats should now abandon support for the Euro
4. Monarchy
5. Milliband plays the immigration card

5 from the LDV archive

(14th December , 2007-11)

1. Should the Lib Dem president be neutral in leadership elections? (23 comments) by Stephen Tall , from 2007
2. Catchup, 14th December (0 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
3. Hypocrite Humphrys’ bonus bunk (8 comments) by Chris White , from 2009
4. Planet Earth to Grayson ( 62 comments) by Richard Kemp, from 2010
5. 14 Liberal Democrat rebels help defeat housing benefit cuts in the House of Lords (29 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. albert einstein
2. ebacc
3. scottish independence
4. ian sanderson
5. minimum wage 2013

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

New blog post, in which Nick Clegg agrees with Lib Dem policy on drugs, and I agree with him: nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2403

— Nick Barlow (@nickjbarlow) December 14, 2012

Better pump my tyres up and grow my sideburns, Tour de France coming to London in July #cycling

— Tom Brake MP (@thomasbrake) December 14, 2012

The campaign continues… Are you a #LibDem? Do you like #secretcourts? If not, have you signed the petition? libdemsagainstsecretcourts.org.uk

— Jo Shaw (@_JoShaw) December 12, 2012

I did not seek re-selection as Parly candidate and will be supporting the excellent new candidate @laylamoran in OxWAb next time.

— Dr Evan Harris (@DrEvanHarris) December 11, 2012

Needless to say I have just read the new Lib Dem magazine – beard and sandles in print 🙁

— laura willoughby (@lcwilloughby) December 9, 2012

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That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…

* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.