In no particular order:
My only two arguments outside of the fringe have been with the right-wing press! Peter Hitchens could see no right in Cameron when I bumped into him on Sunday Night. Yesterday I learnt that The Telegraph isn't talking to me because of my criticisms of their political coverage. I've asked a question about The Telegraph in the monthly survey to test whether I'm representing grassroots feeling towards that newspaper.
Of half-a-dozen BBC journalists I've spoken to, not one backs Andrew Marr's "painkillers question" to Andrew Marr Gordon Brown.
The mood is definitely more like the Tory Conference of 1996 (on the eve of defeat) than 2003 (when the plotting against IDS reached fever pitch). There is resignation, not fight here. A very accurate blog from Fraser Nelson: "Ministers, who would once pass journalists aloofly, now stop to say hello. This is how oppositions behave."
The obsession with the Conservatives is overwhelming. There is no sense of attempting to own the future. Just as we were once caught in the headlights of the Blair phenomenon Labour activists are transfixed by the Cameron effect. Fraser Nelson, Philip Blond and I spoke to a packed Fabian meeting yesterday on "the new Conservatives".
Labour don't like David Cameron but they loathe George Osborne. George should be honoured.
They also loathe the Tory pledge to support marriage. I guess this could be a big Labour campaigning theme.
The activists here are well to the Left of the leadership. The biggest applause of every fringe event are for the most redistributionist, don't-cut-spending noises.
My funniest moment so far. A Labour activist during a Q&A: "It's definitely true, it was in The Daily Mirror."
Funniest photo so far (from Dizzy):
