Read Guido’s Column in The Sun Today

SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013

Read Guido’s Column in The Sun Today

Today’s Sun reveals lobbyist Lord Mandelson is facing a sleaze probe over claims he broke Lords lobbying rules. In Guido’s column:

• Arthur Cameron (7) is on message
• Craig Oliver tweets wrong message
• Reshuffle rumour bluff worked
• Criminal green waste of money
• Clegg peerage for lobbyist he brought into Downing Street
• Labour privatises own mail!
• Sam Cam and the posh women-only club
• Googling candidate selections
• Ken Clarke on need for younger euro-faces

Politics for the many, not the few. Just 60p…

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2013

Saturday Seven Up

This week 95,217 visitors visited 314,809 times viewing 523,969 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• No Nipples Please, We’re Her Majesty’s Telegraph
• Tit-Tastic Day For HuffPost UK
• Labour Shadow Health Minister Loses It After Debate
• Another Twitter Success For Digital Dave
• Labour Plan to Make Benefits a “Human Right”
• Tories Launch American Style End of Term Attack Ad on Ed
• Tories Call For Burnham to Resign

You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

Blair and Mandy Lay It on Thick For Chuka

The hand of Blair is on Chuka’s shoulder in George Parker’s feature for tomorrow’s FT Weekend magazine. “A close ally of the former Prime Minister” gives him a glowing reference, with Mandy also piling on the praise. Still no escaping that awkward Wikipedia-editing business though:

“So inevitable, indeed, that a Wikipedia entry apparently originating from the wannabe MP’s campaign team – but not written by him, he insists – helpfully drew attention to the “British Obama” way back in 2007, in case anyone might have missed them. When news of this Wiki-doctoring emerged this year, David Cameron taunted Umunna, the MP for Streatham, in the House of Commons: “Can we change our Wikipedia entry? Yes we can.” Umunna, 34, claims to hate the parallels – the construct of “lazy journalists”, he once said – and glowered at Cameron, disgust written across his face. He would not have seen it, but some of those laughing loudest were behind him on the Labour benches.”

Ouch. At least he is very, very sorry about calling Londoners trash:

“Of course it was a stupid thing to say. I wasn’t even a candidate at that point but I’m really sorry and regret what I said. I’ve never pretended to be a saint and to have never said stupid things in the past.”

Other gems include a young Chuka’s voice appearing on the theme tune to Mr Bean when he was a chorister at his local Cathedral and a special mention for a certain parody twitter account. And, for the avoidance of doubt, his name rhymes with cooker…