Guido Co-conspirators’ Top 12 Book Buys

Guido Co-conspirators’ Top 12 Book Buys

Guido’s blog reading co-conspirators are massive consumers of books, usually bought online courtesy of Amazon. According to the online retailer our readers favourite top purchases of were:

1. Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies
2. The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy
3. Zetter’s Political Companion
4. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
5. The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze
6. The Triumph of the Political Class
7. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
8. Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11
9. Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader
10. Dirty politics Dirty times
11. The Rise of Political Lying
12. A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 (Mullin Diaires 3)

E-editions and books were combined. Pugnacious Mehdi Hasan really should be less chippy given how many of his books Guido helps shift…

MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2011

12 Most Popular Stories of 2011

Everyone does round-ups of the year, only ours was chosen by our readers, here are the most read stories of the 2011:

1. Piers Morgan Knew Award Winning Scoop Was Hacked
2. A Story You Won’t Get from the BBC,Guardian or The Times
   The Secret of Three of Westminster’s Media Gate-keepers
3. Bet Giles Coren Wishes His Tweets Were Sub-Edited
4. Morgan Mocked Macca’s Misery Voicemails
5. Guido’s Celebrity Super-Injunction Advice
6. Farage’s Rage Going Viral
7. The Full Boundary Review
8. Exclusive: Alastair Campbell Evidence to Leveson
   Speculates Morgan’s Mirror Hacked Cherie Blair’s Voicemail
9. + + + Osborne Coke and Hookers Story Breaking Tonight + + +
10. Sexist Laurie Penny Exploits Unemployed
    Pays Staff Below Minimum Wage
11. Unbankable Story
12. Scandalous European Parliament Email Triggers Gossipping

Not sure that “popular” is the right term for Piers Morgan, nevertheless he is the subject of three of Guido’s most read stories this year. Super-injunctions also occupy three stories (#4, #6, #12). Andrew Marr’s menage a trois is #3 despite being three years old and subsequently disproved by DNA.

The story which amused us most was probably comrade Laurie Penny’sexploitation of an intern. This was funny on many levels, the hypocrisy, her crazed response and the knowledge that whilst travelling in the back of a Mercedes limousine with her, courtesy of the BBC, it was Guido who had urged her on, telling her she “simply must get an intern”.

The Boundary Review scoop was just another example of Guido beating the BBC and the rest of the mainstream media to a story that everyone was chasing. You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

The Quiet Man | Anna Raccoon
Pretty Bad Year for the Inbred, Nepotistic Labour Tribe | LabourList
Clegg Polling Better than Ed Miliband | Sun
Can the ECB Go Bust? | John Redwood
Hannan, Farage, Thatcher Most Popular on YouTube | BBC
To Succeed, Government Must be Willing to Fail | Ruth Porter
Margaret Thatcher Doesn’t Deserve a State Funeral | Peter Oborne
Ed Miliband Wrecked Labour Party Fundraiser | Dan Hodges
The Hypocrisy of Vince Scrooge and the Lib Dems | Quentin Letts
Nick Clegg is a Worse Deputy PM than John Prescott | Norman Tebbit
Your 5 Point Guide to Balls’s Shifting Position | Peter Hoskin
Why ‘Starving the Beast’ May Not Work | James Forsyth

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