Guido emailed over his questions to Margaret Hodge again today, alas once more he has heard nothing back.

You can help pile the pressure on Hodge to stop dodging our questions by joining the growing number of others tweeting her on the #HodgeTheDodge hashtag.

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In his tell-all book Max Clifford devotes several chapters to his sex life. No detail is spared:

“I was sexually adventurous from an early age and if I wanted to do something specific like having sex with a girl when her parents were in the next room, I’d keep on trying until I found someone who wanted to do it too. Almost anything went, including having two girls at a time, having sex with girlfriends’ mothers and watching others have sex. It all seemed very natural to me. When I look back now at the risks I took, I realise I could have had all kinds of sexually transmitted diseases but luckily I never have.”

Too much information…

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RT @jamesro47: Guardian and Observer journalists have voted in favour of holding a strike ballot this PM as NUJ tries to save jobs at papers—
Media Guido (@MediaGuido) December 13, 2012

The Guardian NUJ chapter have voted to ballot all staff on whether to strike over forced redundancies. That could be a £100,000 day saving for the management.

Guardian insiders say it is “odds on” that the strike ballot will pass.

All out…

It is Health PPS wars this afternoon as Tory MP Rob Wilson ups the pressure on Andy Burnham’s PPS over her ill-advised question to the Prime Minister.

Jeremy Hunt’s number two has written to his opposite number, Debbie Abrahams, demanding an Eoin Clarke-style apology:

Serves her right for taking anything Clarke said seriously…

Maria Miller has been well and truly skewered by the Standard this afternoon during an interview in which she tried to play down allegations about her expenses. Did Sir Thomas Legg, the man who carried out the first independent audit into her second home claims, know that her parents lived in the property? “I obviously spoke to the Fees Office about my claims and they were happy that everything was in order”. Hardly a yes.

Who was the second independent auditor? Joe Murphy reports that “The Culture Secretary replied that it was the Conservative Party which “audited all Conservative MPs’ expenses”.  Her definition of independent may raise some eyebrows as the Tory panel was headed by the then Chief Whip and David Cameron’s chief of staff”. Most suspect of all was Miller’s answer to the charge that her decision to stop claiming just as the expenses scandal broke was more than coincidence:

“”I think there was a lot of concern about the rules and, er, a lot of concern about, you know, the whole issue, and it’s something I felt that I didn’t want to be, sort of, mixed up in, the fact that I …”  Mrs Miller finally stopped trying to explain herself, and simply said:  “I just made that decision.””

She will have to do better than that when John Lyon comes calling…

Guido wouldn’t want Eoin’s readers not to know his PhD is in the history of Irish feminism…

This morning the Telegraph issued a carefully-worded apology to question-dodging Margaret Hodge:

“Contrary to our report “Hodge faces challenge over family firm’s taxes” (Nov 20), Stemcor, in which Ms Hodge has a small shareholding, has not abused transfer pricing to avoid tax. We accept that there is no inconsistency or hypocrisy in Ms Hodge criticising other companies for tax avoidance and apologise to her for any contrary impression.”

Note the very specific assertion that Stemcor did not abuse transfer pricing to avoid tax. Guido never made that claim. The paper’s willingness to describe a million pound plus shareholding as “small” is odd, and crucially there is no mention of Hodge’s use of shares held in trusts. She has still yet to reply to our repeated questions, which followed a very different line to the Telegraph’s accusations and have been sent again to her today. Guido stands by everything we have written.

The BBC is reporting that it’s game on with Sir John Lyon.

Could be tricky…

UPDATE: 

Maybe Craig Oliver should have tried threatening the Standards Commissioner as well?—
JamesLyons (@MirrorJames) December 13, 2012

There were plenty of lamentations for Harding last night, but Times Political Editor Roland Watson took the biscuit:

“Newsroom mourning for smart, humane, inspirational, brave, respected and loved editor.”