9pm WATCH:

5pm ToryDiary: "There is the prospect of millions of new shareholders between now and the next election." Economics and politics both justify George Osborne getting a move on with bank privatisation

4.15pm LeftWatch: Stephen Twigg, the cack-handed beautician, offers education an incoherent makeover

3.15pm Peter Smith on Comment: The Comprehensive Spending Review - and why government should target the targets

2.30pm ToryDiary: "When I was waiting for my first daughter to be born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital I spent a lot of time looking out of the window at Wormwood Scrubs Prison - I reflected on its fine architecture but also on the poor asset management of having a prison so close to central London."

11.30am Matthew Elliott on Comment offers Five language rules for the Right

11am WATCH: Cameron and Putin press conference

10.15am ToryDiary "Obama and Cameron are doubtless gambling that arming those factions - or threatening to - will drag Assad to the peace table, but how likely is this to happen?  Even if it did, would British troops not be called upon to play a part in policing an unstable and fissile settlement (at a time when they are more stretched than ever)?" There is no British national interest in being dragged into Syria's sectarian war

ToryDiary: Caveat emptor - Boris is not a standard issue Conservative

Columnist Marina Kim: My vision of Gove with a whip and my view of how schools could be better