CentreForum recently sought advice from a respected political commentator about when to launch our next publication.

"I'd be very interested in it," he said "but I will only be writing about election speculation until Tuesday."

It is therefore no surprise that this blog, which is meant to highlight the interesting policy debates of the day, has struggled to find policy coverage in the broadsheets over the last couple of weeks.

Today is no exception. Poll speculation continues take up all the column inches. Ironically, the most insightful analysis doesn't come from the newspapers at all, but the politicalbetting.com blog which has been given extra detail of the published polls. Normally limited to one posting a day, Mike Smithson has posted 10 entries in the last two days.

The most readable piece today is Mark Lawson's slightly cynical look at Brown and Cameron ('The next PM will be the one who can best fake sincerity').

However, if you really look hard, there is an interesting policy piece today. It comes in the guise of The Times' coverage of an Office for National Statistics report on the family. ('A longer life and in better health - marriage really is good for you')

Sceptics will find as many holes as they want.  For example, the revelation that widowed men suffer some of the worst health might just be that they tend to be older. But, the ONS are generally quite good at not claiming what they can't back up with the data.

What is clear is that, as the Conservatives push The Family up the political agenda, liberals need to be clear where they stand on family policy.  That position needs to be based on evidence such as that in the full ONS report - Focus on families.