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: Britain has become a corporate state, not a free society (51 comments) by Daniel Furr
2. Opinion: Moderates vs Radicals: the battle for the Liberal Democrat soul (56 comments) by Sean Davey
3. Reshuffle round-up: it looks like good news for Swinson & Laws (60 comments) by Stephen Tall
4. Nick Clegg calls for emergency taxes on wealthy (51 comments) by Caron Lindsay
5. Tim Leunig writes… Housing priority Number 1: reversing the rise in the age of first-time buyers (39 comments) by Tim Leunig

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. Matthew Oakshott DOES NOT say Lib Dems should ‘depose’ Clegg
2. Tasmania considers cigarette ban for anyone born after 2000
3. Education ‘reforms’ are fatally flawed
4. When do we start selecting PPCs?
5. Toynbee’s patronising article has 2 good points

5 from the LDV archive

(August 31st, 2007-11)

1. Chris White writes: It’s nice to be hated again (24 comments) by Chris White, from 2011
2. LibLink: Stephen Tall on how to cure Lib Dem masochism (6 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2010
3. Even Martin Luther King repeated the same message (2 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2009
4. Tavish Scott’s new team (0 comments) by The Voice, from 2008
5. Good news for Lib Dems in Norwich South: Charles Clarke has ‘no plans to quit’ (1 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. donald gorrie
2. avon and somerset police commissioner candidates
3. frank dobson bloomsbury council flat
5. old mps expenses rules

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

Hope Brian Binley is right about David Cameron being Lib Dem chambermaid. Wondered who kept leaving chocolates on my pillow.

— Alistair Carmichael (@acarmichaelmp) August 30, 2012

Why do papers always say that pregnant women are “showing off their bump”. They’re just going out and doing normal stuff, for goodness sake

— Caron Lindsay (@caronmlindsay) August 31, 2012

So guess we should start designing a space mission worthy of being called Armstrong ASAP #hero

— Craig Brown (@Orcs) August 25, 2012

Been on the phone too long. Just said I was calling on behalf of the Limeral Democrats.

— Jennie Rigg (@miss_s_b) August 28, 2012

Look who’s turned up to @liberalyouth Training Day! Jeremy Browne MP. COOL GUY twitter.com/kavya_kaushik/…

— Kav Kaushik (@kavya_kaushik) August 31, 2012

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