Round up time

Six items from around the web, including a couple of follow ups on stories I've been following (I'm trying to get into the habit of not writing about something and then never mentioning it again);

• First the Hobbit. Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty. Frog Blog. Reading the Maps.
  
  
• Carnival of Socialism is back this Sunday. Let stroppy know what she should include.
  
  
• Political scrapbook has spotted the Lib Dems have quietly pulled their no to nuclear site.
  
  
• Journeyman remembers Colonel Thomas Rainsborough.
  
  
• Don Paskini on housing benefit, Claire French on the science budget, Michael Meacher on the CSR debate, and can satire change the economic narrative? Nishma Doshi.
  
  
• George Marshall on CiF says we need tokeep our heads when describing climate change.