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. So, what do you make of this graph about gender and politics? (24) by Mark Pack.
2. Opinion: UK Border Agency plunges colleges into crisis (20) by the Head of a private college.
3. Crikey, I appear to know more about Liverpool than the new Labour candidate (5) by Mark Pack.
4. The Independent View: Why Lib Dem, Labour and Green progressives must work together (46) by Anneliese Midgley.
5. The second biggest fight in Wales: Ceredigion (7) by Huw Dawson.

5 top non-Lib Dem LibDig postings to look at

1. Liberal Democrats’ hour has come round at last by Steve Richards in the Independent. “… in the build-up to the election Clegg’s pro-European, anti-Westminster, redistributive liberalism gives him an authentic and distinctive voice. At least he knows his voice will be heard when not so long ago it seemed as if he’d be drowned out by the clamour of the two bigger parties. We will have to wait and see whether he will take it, but he has a chance.” – submitted by stephenftall.
2. An Appreciation of Duncan Brack by Iain Dale. “A generous and well deserved post about Duncan on his 50th birthday.” – submitted by markpack.
3. Should we elect MPs on reality TV rules? from BBC News magazine. “Although my heart sank at the headline, this is actually quite a good piece at turning abstruse electoral reform arguments into an issue people can relate to.” – submitted by markpack.
4. Blair v Chilcot. No contest: we and the truth are the losers by Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian. “A great summing up: ‘When it came to Iraq, Tony Blair was a combination of passionate conviction and cavalier disregard for detail. It was that fatal marriage which explains so much of what went so wrong.'” – submitted by stephenftall.
5. PCC is ‘farcical’, says ex-director of public prosecutions by Jane Martinson in the Guardian. “Withdraw from ineffectual self-regulatory Press Complaints Commission, Sir Ken Macdonald tells editors and lawyers.” – submitted by markpack.

5 recently active groups on ACT

1. UK + IRAQ
2. Lib Dem Media Watch
3. Say No to Trident
4. Localism Policy Working Group
5. Approved Candidates

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)
1. “uniform swing”
2. laurence boyce
3. nick clegg meets oxford
4. how to become a lib dem mp
5. percentage of postal voters

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

>> @alexfolkes Cllr Conference and video – http://bit.ly/9dcRqC
>> @alexfoster – 12seconds – Single Point of Failure. http://tiny12.tv/A3FDJ
>> @rfenwick Got to watch the curtain call from backstage at the ENO last night. I have decided to retreat to a monastery and retrain as an opera singer
>> @LYScotland Come join @LYScotland and @TavishScott this weekend in Edinburgh to help get more Lib Dems elected! Email [email protected]
>> @Lucy_Watt “change is going to make you feel uncomfortable and that’s ok” #nationalapprenticeweek

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