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The UK Guardian’s politics section is running a competition for financial experts in an attempt to unravel Tony Blair’s highly complicated financial arrangements.

Here’s the deal:

We’re offering a prize of an original Steve Bell cartoon for the best explanation of Tony Blair’s opaque financial structures received by 16 December. We’re making the key documents available here. Send us your remarks or annotations; we’ll publish interesting observations, and credit you if you’d like us to. If you’d like to get in touch directly then email david.leigh@guardian.co.uk

The full introduction and background to all of this is here; ‘The Mystery Of Tony Blair’s Finances’ and links to all of the relevant documents you might need are on the sidebar on that page.

Can you shed any light on the mystery? If you can, enquiring minds would love to hear from you.

The Atheist billboard campaign is off to a good start in the UK, with billboards now up in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.

Further details about this campaign, with daily updates, are available on the official website. There is also coverage on the BBC News website and a full article, with a large – and fast increasing – number of comments and opinions, on the Guardian UK’s Comment is Free section.

Unless there are any last minute changes of plan, Ronnie Biggs will be freed from prison within a matter of days to live out what remains of his life in a care home.

According to Bigg’s solicitor Giovanni di Stefano;

“He knows about this and he’s very pleased and his release is now just a few days away. It’s a brand new home that he will be going to and his son will be only a half a mile away and will be able to visit every day.”

This is good, if long overdue, news in my opinion.

Boa sorte, Ronnie.

The James Purnell resignation letter in full. Released, at 10pm at night, just one day after another cabinet minister’s shock resignation, and just one day before the publication of – what are expected to be – truly terrible Labour Party results in English local and European elections.

If that letter isn’t proof that British politics, when at it’s worse, is really British politics at it’s best, then I don’t know what is.

Behind-the-scenes plots, intrigue, dark whispers, secret collaborations, and, now, a dagger in the dark.

You really couldn’t make it up.

I just made a whole bunch of Hubdub predictions on UK politics. Some I think are genuinely likely, some I think are ‘Hmm, maybe…’, and, finally, there are a few that are probably just plain ol’ cases of wishful thinking.

Also, keep in mind that I have not actually lived in the UK for almost twenty years, so a lot of these predictions are necessarily based on general tittle-tattle, gossip, and things picked up from TV news, UK online newspapers, and so on. Not the best sources of reliable information, then.

Anyway, here they are. I’ll see how I get on.