* Britain rejects French overtures for sharing nuclear submarine patrols
* Here is the new Tory “policy triangle” on which their general election campaign is based: make any sense to you?
* Lloyds Banking Group will make a profit in 2010, says Robert Peston
* Liam Fox’s plans for the Ministry of Defence
* OFT poised to launch a review of investment bank fees
* New questions over the union “modernisation fund” which provides millions to Unite and others to improve management and training
and…last but not least…
Hugo Rifkind is my new favourite diarist
Jim Pickard
Kiran Stacey