This week 109,924 visitors made 354,191 visits to view 545,103 pages – not bad considering parliament is in recess and politicians are off on their holidays.

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The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• Piers de Résistance
• Why CNN Will Fire Piers Morgan
• Piers in Tears
• How to Handle a Story
• Mirror Group Paid Blagger £442,878 for Illegally Obtained Info
  65 Invoices Paid by Piers Morgan’s Daily Mirror
• Government Launches e-Petitions Website
  Guido Submits “Restoration of Capital Punishment” Petition
• Laurie Penny’s Obituary for Amy Winehouse

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

The Sun reports on the launch of our campaign to get a vote on restoring the death penalty. Thousands have already signed up online to support the campaign which we aim to officially launch next week.

Tory MP Philip Davies said: “It’s something where once again the public are a long way ahead of the politicians. I’d go further and restore it for all murderers.”

Fellow Conservative MP Priti Patel, backs the death penalty ”It’s about time the public had a greater say on the issues that we debate. I’m not surprised that this issue has been raised. We need strong deterrents to make people think twice about the crimes they commit.”

Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner says “Congratulations on your campaign. If there is anything else a humble back-bencher can do to help…”  There is, sign-up to support the campaign which launches next week:

UPDATE: David Nuttall, MP for Bury North and Chris Kelly, MP for Dudley South are the latest MPs to come out for restoring the death penalty.