Iain Dale is trying to find conspiracy theories behind the fact that the Lib Dem walk out of Parliament earlier this week didn’t make it onto the front page of the party newspaper, Lib Dem News.

Strangely, there is no mention of Ed Davey’s hissy fit or the LibDem walkout. Do you think they have now realised how ridiculous they made themselves look?

I suspect the answer is rather more prosaic.  The print deadline for Lib Dem News is Tuesday so that the printers can get the publication off the presses, folded, into envelopes and onto the doormats of Lib Dem activists and Iain Dale by Friday.  The walkout probably happened too late in the cycle to make it into this week’s paper.  We’ll know by waiting to see what’s in next week’s edition.  However, it might be such old news by then that it doesn’t feature much.

These are the perils of a weekly periodical. Perhaps he’ll understand better when his own political rag reaches the presses.