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The day after the UK election from lucy pepper on Vimeo.

Portugal-based British illustrator Lucy Pepper sums it all up perfectly.

Check out her blog too.

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.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama has this morning been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. This has, predictably enough, caused half of the world’s population to complain that he does not deserve it. The Nobel people think otherwise;

“Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the Norwegian committee said in a statement.

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.”

Personally, I’m half of the mind that this accolade for Obama does seem a little premature considering that he hasn’t actually done anything much, but then again it occurs to me that him not doing anything much is a vast improvement over George Bush when he did anything at all.

So in my humble opinion Barack Obama deserves the prize just for not being George Bush, if nothing else.

I just spotted a witty remark in the comments of an article titled ‘Would Europe back President Blair?’ on the UK Guardian’s comment is free section. It genuinely made me laugh out loud, and I think it needs sharing, so here it is;

Question: Would Europe back President Blair?

Answer: Preferably off a cliff, at the point of a bayonet.

Well said that man/woman.

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.