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. Why the Lib Dems cannot end the Coalition. And what we should do to try and rescue it. (62 comments) by Stephen Tall
2. How Jeremy Thorpe (and then Nick Clegg) broke the electoral system (38 comments) by Stephen Tall
3. Do the Lib Dems have a core vote, and can we grow it? (33 comments) by Stephen Tall
4. Opinion: Liberal Democrats must not apologise for cuts (38 comments) by David Thorpe
5. Opinion: The Lib Dems’ moment of Reckoning (20 comments) by Geoffrey Payne

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. FORUM UPGRADE
2. 50 years ago, the last peacetime UK coalition ended
3. SLF conference, what did you think?
4. Gove approves opening of creationist free schools
5. Manchester Central Parliamentary by-election, November 2012

5 from the LDV archive

(July 20th, 2007-11)

1. Stephen Williams: Labour spent £38m taxpayer cash on News International advertising (10 comments) by The Voice, from 2011
2. Simon Hughes: Coalition Government will legislate to allow gay marriage (37 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2010
3. Vince on reform of banking regulation (11 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2009
4. Sedgefield result: 11% swing from Labour to Lib Dem (16 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007
5. Ealing Southall result: 6% swing from Labour to Lib Dem (50 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. stephen tall tuition fees
2. “evan harris” atheist
3. lib dem hunt vote iraq
4. david laws
5. the hollow crown

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

@nick_clegg: left wing media portrays #LibDems as impotent, right wing media portrays us as forcing #Tories to implement LibDem policies

— Rebecca Taylor (@RTaylor_MEP) July 14, 2012

…And don’t see things in a stupid binary. Binary only helps computers. Binary thinking in humans is damaging… To everybody.

— Lancelot (@GuitaringLancey) July 14, 2012

congratulations to the lib dem team winning the annual interparliamentary rounders tournament!

— Gordon Birtwistle (@GBirtwistle_MP) July 18, 2012

Ppl who reject positive discrimination cos ppl shld get jobs ‘on merit’: don’t u get that those with the power now had *unfair advantages*??

— Karen Hanna Kruzycka (@renarde) July 13, 2012

Years ago I wrote to Charles Kennedy & asked him who his favourite muppet was. I’ve just found his reply. A lovely man twitter.com/PhilLucas/stat…

— Phil Lucas (@PhilLucas) July 19, 2012

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