Guido hears that Miliband is preparing a Brown-style relaunch next week. He’s booked into Tuesday morning’s Today programme and will then head to the Oxo Tower, not for a stock speech, but to have another crack at the much derided Predators v Producers idea. It should give him some much needed gravy-tas

Brillo’s trailer for his much anticipated Sunday Politics show, launching next week, reveals that the man about town wears the classic night time attire favoured by playboys from Hugh Hefner to Frank Sinatra. Black silk pyjamas…

Marina Hyde succinctly sums up contemporary British politics…

“…the overriding impression is that Ed Miliband’s Labour don’t know what they’re doing. And while the other lot don’t know what they’re doing, and in a far more worrying way, they manage to go about not knowing it with considerably more finesse.”

This week saw a full 114,396 visitors make 287,089 visits to view 453,844 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Diane Abbott’s “White People” Tweet Rage
• Lee Jasper Gets Some Home Truths
• Labour Finally Comment
• Minxy Mensch is the New Iron Maiden
• Social Justice and the Housing Benefit Cap
• Watch: This Explains the New Daily Politics Mug
• Guardian Makes Thirty-Eighth News International Correction

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