This suggests that a carbon tax would be more efficient than the current hotchpotch of policies.

ECONOMIST: Taxing carbon

Cardiff Central AM Jenny Rathbone branded the Conservative motion a "hotchpotch" and argued that if people don't trust their councils, then they're unlikely to engage.

BBC: Conservatives' debate on local communities

Unfortunately, the hotchpotch of communists, socialists and agrarians that are already the biggest parliamentary block promises to do just as well, or even better, next time.

ECONOMIST: Ukraine

Labour have attacked this a "a hotchpotch of planning measures" and have pointed to the fact that the Coalition lead in the debate is Communities Minister Lady Hanham, not the newly-ennobled Lord Deighton, who was brought into the Treasury as Infrastructure Minister.

BBC: Week ahead