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Crash Leads to Carr Reverse  Guido Reveals Leveson Losing It Over on the comedy circuit Jimmy Carr was outed for his Ken-style tax hypocrisy only for him to abjectly apologise for doing nothing wrong a few days later, while Julian Assange landed Jemima Khan and co with a huge bill after jumping bail and Caroline Spelman's 'roid-popping son was revealed to be a bronzed-up body-builder. Comedy met reality when EU Commissioner Baroness Ashton had her very own amusing Thick of It moment while meeting the Serbian President.  The newspapers followed up Guido's scoop that everyone's favourite High Court judge had lost it over the Mail on Sunday's splash that he'd threatened to quit. Guido learned that Leveson had to be talked down from calling a special hearing, instead summoning core participants to make submissions on the story. Leveson later confirmed Guido's scoop by admitting that he had considered holding the hearing.  Guido's next scoop was the revelation that Lord Ashcroft's bid to merge PoliticsHome, Dods, ePolitix with politics monitoring specialist DeHavilland has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading. Meanwhile the Telegraph upped their assault on Baroness Warsi's dodgy dinners, only for Guido to discover that they had covered up the fact that their own star columnist Peter Oborne had attended the same event as a guest. Over in sunnier climes Craig Oliver had the Lobby by the short and curlies after taking snaps of topless hacks sunning themselves by the pool in Mexico. Still waiting for you to send 'em over, Dre... Back home there was plenty to keep Labour HQ busy, kicking off with a stampede of staffers rushing for the exits following the announcement of 30 voluntary redundancies. Ed's men then descended further into factionalism as the Progress/GMB dispute threatened open civil war, while Tom Watson's choices for police commissioners were pipped to the post by Blairite candidates. At least Kojag's holding it together...  The humiliating moment of the week: watch this video of Kevin Brennan getting his sums wrong. Doh! Advertisement  Leon Bailey-Green blogs about gay marriage and BBC food industry bashing. Week's Most Read Stories This week 85,104 visitors visited 272,184 times viewing 454,719 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were: Assange in London Ecuadorian Embassy Seeking Asylum Exclusive: Leveson Loses It Over Mail on Sunday Front Page Loony Lefty Loses It Live On BBC With Toby Young Carr: I’m Amoral and I Have Osborne in my Pocket GDP Growth Was Higher in the 1930s Carr in Reverse: Jimmy Says He’s Done With Dodging Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan Fails Maths Test You're either in front of Guido, or behind...