Not far behind in the honorary doctorate stakes is Andreas Whittam Smith’s piece in The Independent. As he says, “one or two reforms won’t fix our democracy” but making the voting system fairer and Parliament more representative will get us nearer to that hallowed goal.

While on the subject of The Indy, its letters page is once again dominated by positive responses to the paper’s Campaign for Democracy. One has the heading “only a mass movement will win the case for voting reform”. Quite. See first paragraph for where to start. Not to be outdone, The Guardian also devotes space on its letters page to the ongoing public debate about the tribalism and lack of voter choice which are accentuated under the current system.

At this point I could go on and on about all the amazing coverage our campaign has received in the regional press in the week following the election result … and which has just made it into this office this morning. But to brag would not be right. The acres of newsprint I have in front of me is testament to the depth of feeling out there in the country – this is not just a figment of a few London-based papers. So thank you to all those who’ve written in to your local rag. Yes, that’s you: Jeff Martin of Solihull; Gavin Fleming of Edinburgh; Ken Milward of Weymouth; Kenneth Moss of Norwich; Bernard Black of Cowplain; D E Margrett of Worcester and the many others who have done so.

Other bits n pieces that got me smiling. Over the weekend we had battle re-joined, as Jack Straw and Menzies Campbell got stuck into each other –- and, mercifully, the issues – on World This Weekend. And this blog posting courtesy of Guido: an observation that George Galloway has flown to US and not yet sworn the oath in House of Commons. Apparently there’s some ruling somewhere which gives the Queen’s Speech as a deadline for doing so, or the MP risks punishment. Remains to be seen though whether this story has as many airmiles as George himself ….

The final words I’ll leave to Alex Hilton over at Tribune. His piece in this week’s magazine is a great reminder of what we have achieved over the past 10 days and what we have to build on: “PR back on British political agenda”.