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. Bradford West by-election: 5 initial thoughts on an astonishing result (53 comments) by Stephen Tall
2. Julian Huppert MP writes… Safeguards to control state surveillance (24 comments) by Julian Huppert MP
3. “Reports about plans to snoop on your emails are complete nonsense” – Lynne Featherstone writes to Lib Dem members (39 comments) by Paul Walter
4. David Walter (27 comments) by Mary Reid
5. The wheels are coming off the online monitoring bandwagon (18 comments) by Mark Pack

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. Will the Lib Dems support this [interception of comms]?
2. Bradford West!!
3. What will happen in the May 2012 elections?
4. Membership telephone surveys
5. Probably too cunning this….

5 from the LDV archive

(April 6th , 2007-11)

1. WTF? Lib Dem MP Stephen Gilbert stands up for use of youth argot (4 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2011
2. What happens in wash up – and what will happen to the Digital Economy Bill? (7 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2010
3. Do you belong to a suspicious group? It’s hard not to… (14 comments) by Helen Duffett, from 2009
4. Twitter is working for Paddick (0 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
5. Who are the most straight talking politicians? (0 comments) by Mark Pack, from 2007

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. david walter
2. bradford west by election
3. purdah
4. “nick clegg” israel
5. farron asa

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

I’m half watching the football and half writing a Lib Dem Focus.

— Neil Monnery (@neilmonnery) April 6, 2012

RT @DPMoffice: VIDEO: Nick Clegg wishes Jewish families across the UK Chag Sameach bit.ly/I5D1b6 #passover

— Alan Muhammed (@alansm) April 6, 2012

So Labour are going against Gay Marriage and Lords Reform!!??Even though they said they’d support both!!!

— Greg Judge (@gregjudge) April 6, 2012

Tories plan to abolish housing benefit for under 25s. They can live with family/friends apparently. What if they haven’t got that option?

— Mark Thompson (@MarkReckons) April 6, 2012

New Tax Year tomorrow. Personal allowance will have gone up by more in 3 years due to @Lib Dems in coalition, than 13 years under @Labour

— John Leech(@johnleechmcr) April 5, 2012

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