There were some golden Boris moments during the Olympics, but Bojo and Barbara Windsor playing sitting volleyball this afternoon has to top the lot. And with that silly season comes to a close…

The latest report from the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA shows  Iran doubling their enrichment of uranium in a deep bunker that is definitely for providing power. Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary has weighed in:

“The threat that a nuclear armed Iran would pose to Israel, to the wider stability of the region and to international security as a whole is deeply concerning and warrants urgent and concerted diplomatic efforts. That is why the report today is so deeply concerning and cannot and should not be ignored.”

Don’t tell Mehdi Hasan though, obviously he is right and the UN Security Council are wrong…

Power-dressing pussybow blouses, stylish salmon-pink suits and classy cocktail gowns…what takes your fancy? Fans of the Iron Lady now have the chance to own the ultimate piece of Maggie memorabilia as seven of her classic suits go on auction at Christie’s. Each dress is expected to fetch around £1,500, making a handsome ten grand for their current owner. Don’t rule out a Tory MP bidding war…

Pearson plc, the owners of the FT, have caused a minor ripple today through their imaginatively named Pearson Think Tank. They’ve published a prophecy of doom about the state of primary education and teacher training:

“A perfect storm of falling teacher training applications, low staff morale and rapidly rising pupil numbers could easily create a future teacher workforce crisis in primary schools if left unchallenged.”

The Department for Education claim that the report “could not be further from the truth”. Crucially Pearson Think Tank recommends the way to solve the problem is for the government to spend more money on teacher training. So what was it that first attracted one of the world’s largest providers of education services to create their own in-house wonk-shop and produce knocking copy about teachers?

Nothing to do with their commercial interests, of course. Who could sweep in and fix the terrible mess that Pearson claim is blighting  the teaching world? Well these guys look like experts in the area:

• Pearson Training
• Pearson Education Services teacher training
• Pearson teacher training books
• Pearson teacher professional development
• Pearson teacher effectiveness training

Predictably Labour’s sub par education team have got all hot and heavy and are press-releasing quotes about the fake think-tank’s report. Without realising, of course, that they are mere pawns in a corporation’s commercial scheme…

Earlier this month Guido revealed that the Tories’ PCC candidate in Cambridgeshire was not actually a member of the Conservative Party. Guido reported at the time that local Tories had begged John Pye to sign up but he was refusing to carry the party card.

Following the revelations the pressure has mounted over the last few weeks, and yesterday Pye announced that he was standing down. Apparently he wants to “avoid further disruption” to the campaign. It’s bye-bye to Mr Pye…

Do ya feel lucky?

Guido is supporting #PositiveTwitterDay today. Twitter, especially the political Twittersphere can be a horrible nasty place, well today Guido will do his Christian best to be nice to all in his tweets. The idea comes from the invariably polite Sunder Katwala.

Friday sees our civic attempt at a civil #positivetwitterday (if you're commenting on Thursday night in the USA, you may have a few hours!)—
Sunder Katwala (@sundersays) August 30, 2012

A number of well known Twitter curmudgeons have already re-tweeted the hashtag #PositiveTwitterDay and entered into the spirit of the day. Guido for his part is determined to have civil, positive discussions today with the likes of Polly or Mehdi. The power of positive tweeting…