Hot weather and recess saw a mere 87,952 visitors make 251,060 visits to view 380,506 pages last week. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Chris Grayling Squirms Over Ann Summers
• Mehdi’s Massive Promotion
• Islanders’ Desperate Plea to Gove After Academy Stitch Up
• Paxo on Piers
• Sinister Olympic Spin II
• Huhne’s Bi-Sexual Lover Loses Court Case
• Leaky Watson

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If his rapidly fading smug smile was anything to go by, Tom Watson got a much tougher ride at Leveson than he was expecting. He was probed about McBride and Smeargate, denying any knowledge of a plan to counter Guido, despite the Red Rag website actually being set up. He was also cornered on leaking and again denied, on oath, that he leaked information from the Culture Media and Sport Select Committee to the Guardian. That will clear  up the  mystery around them getting hold of all sorts of evidence before anyone else then. He was forced to answer yes to the next question though – of course he was feeding Nick Davies.

Watson was also asked about his relationship with Political Scrapbook. He denied, unprompted, to being “part of the management”, or indeed ever feeding them information. Which is odd given a simple Google search pulled up this glaring example:

“Tom Watson will in a few moments use parliamentary privilege to publicly expose details of a notorious murder inquiry allegedly blocked by News International.”

Information reaching the media before Parliament? How did that come about? The website also carries a very prominent advert for Watson’s book and is funded by the his allies at the GMB Union….

Last week some 110,516 visitors made 323,955 visits to view 503,294 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• That Hunt Email in Full
• Today’s Blooper
• PM in Secret Meeting With Anti-Gay Marriage Campaigner
• Exclusive: Prime Minister’s Spokesman Steve Field Quitting
• Friday Caption Contest (LOL Edition)
• Shome Mishtake, Shurely?
• Gove, Gays and God

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Last week some 113,046 visitors made 329,322 visits to view 524,539 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Jeremy Clarkson on Tom Watson
• Oxford Union’s Rack Torture
• Gove Goes For the Old Boys in the Media
• News You Can Trust?
• New Statesman Declining into Irrelevance
• Rich & Mark’s Monday Morning View
• Boris Accepts, Ken Regrets

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Last week some 104,615 visitors made 307,581 visits to view 492,912 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Boris!
• Watson Dodges Questions on Committee Leak
• Police Coming for Mensch Trolls
• Flandering About Yesterday
• Time to Bring Farage Home
• Labour Lost London the Day they Chose Ken 
• Ben Bradshaw’s Campaign Coordinator Defects From Labour
  Yet More Young Conservative UKIP Jumpers

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Last week some 86,307 visitors made 302,535 visits to view 489,364 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Leaked: Diane Abbott’s Question Time Preparation Notes
• Dorries Should Defect
• The Full Hunt Emails
• James Murdoch Skewers Hunt
• Speaker in Gay Harassment Scandal
• Murdoch Calls Brown “Unbalanced”
• Margaret Moran’s £80,000 Sick Note

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I don’t care if Ed Miliband is backing Livingstone . I seriously suggest NO ONE votes for Livingstone in the Mayoral elections—
Lord Sugar (@Lord_Sugar) April 19, 2012

Yesterday’s cack-handed plea by Labour’s campaign supremo Tom Watson for Labour supporters who can’t stand Ken to “hold your nose, vote for Ken” follows on from Labour peers Lord Sugar and Lord Winston expressing anti-Ken sentiments.

Labour have now roped in Oona King, who was once described by Ken as a Blairite “she-devil” to support Ken in a transparently false show of party unity. What Oona really thinks about Ken was revealed before he was selected as the official candidate. She said ‘I don’t think Ken Livingstone is the way to go. He may qualify for Britain’s Got Talent but only on UK Gold’. Not the most ringing endorsement…

Left-wing blogger @PSBookEditor becomes latest Labour figure to refuse to support Ken #NotKenAgain—
Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) April 26, 2012

Guido was intrigued to hear on the grapevine that Tom Watson’s tame attack-puppies at the left-wing union-sponsored website Political Scrapbook can’t stand Ken Livingstone either. He searched their website for evidence of support for Ken and found none – months of anti-Boris material, not one single article so far that is pro-Ken. Last night Guido challenged them on Twitter to back Ken with a bet. They refused to back Ken…

Last week saw 100,187 visitors making 291,943 visits to view 453,319 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Michael Gove and the Child’s Balloon
• Irish Taxpayer Sacrificed to Prop Up Eurozone Banks
• Exclusive: Paddick Did Not Disclose £387,239 Met Pay-Off
• ‘Ello ‘Ello ‘Ello, Paddick Hides Evidence of Tax-Free Lump-Sum
• Did An Accountant Really Sign Off Ken’s Tax Declaration?
• Maid Mary Ann
• The UKIP Surge is Not a “Shock”

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Last week saw 105,841 visitors making 274,331 visits to view 420,897 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Motorman: Britain’s Biggest Establishment Cover-Up 
• Tory/UKIP Defection Runners and Riders
• Post-€uro Preparations for Irish Punt
• Labour Backlash at Harman/Watson By-Election Stich-Up
• Ken’s Tears Were For Actors
• Neutral Audience Savages Ken on Tax
• “Campaign Coordinator” Tom Watson Drops Another Clanger

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Easter recess saw traffic down some 20% last week with a mere 84,837 visitors making 259,795 visits to view 411,370 pages. The top stories in order of popularity were:

• Ken is the 14.5%
  Former Climate Change Adviser Knocked Up Partial Figures
• Boris to Ken: “You’re a F***ing Liar!”
• Team Ken Send Out Tax Lines to Tweet Script
• Postcard to Iain McNicol From the Office
• Friday Caption Contest (Drag On the Ticket Edition)
• BBC Denies the Science
• Ken Releases Partial Figures
  Earned £238,646 and Paid £34,661 in Tax at 14.5%

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