Welcome to the 174th Britblog Roundup, brought to you this week in association with Paddy Power bookmakers. A busy week of political stories, headed by the plucky Irish and the brave / egocentric / magnificent / lunatic David Davis (delete according to taste) is augmented in this roundup with a healthy smattering of nonpolitical stories, so hopefully there will be something for everyone.

No doubting what was making the running in the political blogosphere this week; that David Davis resignation. There are as many opinions on this as there are bloggers, but I think it's fair to say that there's wide cross-party support for Davis' move, at least in principle. Andrew Ian Dodge, Alex Massie and Dr Crippen were among those cheering Basher on.

At Liberal Conspiracy, an interesting discussion went on between Conor Foley on the one hand, and Jennie Rigg and Unity on the other, as to whether lefties should support DD. Meanwhile, Meral wonders whether, with both main parties split on the terrorism issue, the Lib Dems might slip through the middle.

Luke Akehurst took a different tack; put up a survivor of a terrorist attack on a 42-day platform. This earned him a great deal of opprobrium - see Chicken Yoghurt, Nation of Shopkeepers and Devil's Kitchen, for example - but Luke may have the last laugh; apparently Labour are considering approaching the mighty John Smeaton to stand. Never underestimate the ability of this government to stay one step ahead of satire.

It's been a bad, or good, week for the Irish, depending on your point of view. Jon Worth has a couple of thoughts on the referendum result; Hunter and Shooter, however, is disgusted by the DUP's support for the 42-day Bill, and wants Ulster sold to the Republic for £2 (though why that sum, particularly, is not made clear). The Daily Maybe thinks that the government are quickly morphing into "right wing arseholes", which makes me wonder why I still don't like them.

At Harry's Place they're discussing predictions that Britain will soon have a network of Sharia law courts. Matt Wardman discusses how we can keep track of developments in Zimbabwe by Twitter, which is all the rage apparently. And Paul Canning reports that the Associated Press are, extraordinarily, threatening bloggers with lawsuits just for quoting their stories.

Finally on matters political, Dizzy castigates politicians for exacerbating the severity of the fuel strikes by telling us all not to panic buy, which of course is precisely what we're all going to do. And Dr Crippen links the pay of fuel tanker drivers with that of young doctors, who apparently are grossly underpaid:

What are we doing to our hospital doctors? All those GCSEs and “A” levels, five or six years at University to get the basic medical qualification, several more years hard work as a very junior doctor, more postgraduate exams and then a research post at a leading London Teaching Hospital. And a salary of £32,000 a year, give or take. Marriage. A family. A house in inner London? Forget it. And this is the cream of the English medical profession. Similarly able people in, say, law will be on a salary of £40,000 a year at the age of 23 and, by the time they are 30, if they are as able in their own field as our surgical registrar is in his, they will be looking at a salary five to ten times greater than his.

Sometimes I think the world has gone mad.

Good luck getting public sympathy on that score, Doc...

Moving on to matters educational; Blogging up the Works explains how the crumbling of society dates back to the moment when sales of buggies overtook those of prams. Chris Dillow, playing Devil's Advocate as ever, argues that we don't need no world class tertiary education. John Hemming looks at a recent child law case, and Unmitigated England looks at an initiative to take art into the schoolroom.

Speaking of art, Natalie Bennett on a new exhibition in the capital by Australian artist Fred Williams. And, since we're in London, the Diamond Geezer takes a walk through the Rotherhithe Tunnel, and Jonathan Calder considers the new St. Pancras station (which I look forward to seeing).

There's more on architectural gems from English Buildings - a fascinating blog even for those (like me) with only the most passing of interest in such things.

Lots of sport on at the moment. Let's skate quickly over Euro 2008 and instead take in a liveblog of Surrey-Kent from the Oval and a rather remarkable description of a cycling race between Paris and Roubaix.

The F Word blogs on misogyny at Comment is Free. Personally, I don't agree with Zohra on this; I think the CiF comments are an equal opportunity hate zone. But do go and read, and make your own mind up.

The Plastic Fuzz on Police Community Support Officers and the press.

David Aaronovitch gets in a spat with the baby-eating blogging Bishop of Buckingham. And Ruscombe Green writes about the trials of beekeeping.

The Thunderdragon is annoyed at being asked to sponsor people just because they wear chicken suits to run a race. And Paul Linford explains why the right man won The Apprentice.

Finally, Ellee Seymour shares some thoughts on weddings - which gives us a perfect excuse to congratulate Iain Dale on getting hitched at the weekend. Mazeltov from all here at Britblog Towers.

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Until next Sunday, then, as the man said: Toodle pip!