By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk
* Writing for LabourList, Ed Balls attacked the “Miliband soap opera” and laid out his housing plans.
* Polly Toynbee rails at “vain, venal has-beens”, and their interbentions in the leadership contest…
* Steve Richards says it’s time to move on from New Labour.
* David Miliband is said to be irked by Peter Mandelson’s intervention in the leadership race.
* The old guard meanwhile have hit back at Mandelson.
* Mary Riddell says the race isn’t as important as what comes next.
* Tony Blair looks set to attack Gordon Brown’s record in government as his book is published.
* And Gordon Brown writes for the Independent on Niger, a nation “dying in silence”.