This week 90,696 visitors made 253,372 visits to view 406,448 pages. The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• Oborne Has Guilty €urophiles Squirming
• Vicky Pryce Not Happy With Huhne
  Her Lawyer Releases New Statement
• Sarah Teather Stand-Up Routine Bombs
• Psycho Huhne Checklist
• Moran Leaves Court in Tears
• Science is Never “Settled”
• Totty Watch: Sky News Top Trumps 2011
  Luciana Stays On Top – Chuka Came Second

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This week 124,543 visitors made 323,514 visits to view 518,612 pages. The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• The Full Boundary Review
• Osborne Coke and Hookers Story Breaking Tonight 
• De Re “Louise”
• Schillings Send Out Legal Notices for Sir Stuart Bell
• PANIC-O-RAMA: BBC’s Vivian White Investigating Osborne, Cocaine, Hooker and Hacking Story
• Exclusive: Johann Hari Mails Back Orwell Prize
• FLASHBACK: Osborne Statement On Natalie Rowe Allegations

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A rare surplus in the public sector net cash requirement seems to have distorted the misery index, despite the gloom on the horizon and rising unemployment. Guido is definitely not happy, having just spent longer than ever necessary trying to navigate around the utterly shoddy, messy and overly complex new website for the Office of National Statistics, he’s in need of a drink. Another spectacular public sector IT success…

From now onwards the Misery Index will be bought to you using Bloomberg data.

N.B. Stats bods can check Guido’s adding up here.

This week 100,056 visitors made 298,909 visits to view 468,103 pages. The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• Hari Confesses, Blames Depression
• Question Time “Paranoid” at Unpredictable Audience
• 38 Degrees Off Course
• On the Farm: David Miliband & Alistair Darling
• Moran Charged on 21 Counts
• The Honourable Member for Paris
• Guardian Journalist Questioned Under Caution

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Traditionally the quietest of weeks in Westminster, MPs have started trickling back, though some of them would have been better off staying away. Conversation has mainly focused on Darling’s imminent memoir, some of which was leaked to Labour Uncut. Apparently Gordon was a prime mentalist and Balls a backstabber… Who knew? 

The fall out from the leaks upset the Sunday Times who have paid for the serialisation rights, so Guido has been as helpful as possible to Darling after Uncut pulled their story.

Elsewhere this week Guido upset the greens and has been digging into Milband’s PPS Michael Dugher’s former career as an MoD SpAd, turned defence lobbyist. Guido did a three part expose here, here and here. We also suggested to Lord Leveson that Piers Morgan should be an expert witness for his phone-hacking inquiry and revealed the Balls loyalist busted leaking from Department of Education.

It wouldn’t be a political week without yet another twist in the Chris Huhne speeding case. The file has gone back to the CPS after they sent it back to the police after they sent it the first time, though with more evidence this time. Keep up!

As we go to pixel this week a mere 91,006 visitors made 251,817 visits to view 386,183 pages.  The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• Baby P Killer Released After Only 2 Years
• Polly: “Labour Weren’t Very Good at Blowing Their Own Trumpet”
• Clueless
• The Glasgow Kiss
• The Darling of the BBC
• BREAKING: Essex Police Send the Huhne File Back to CPS
• Oops She Did It Again

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One cock-up in a week looks like an accident, two a coincidence… but thrice looks like incompetence from a man promising he has changed after being booted out City Hall. Ken Livingstone is never going to go quietly. First we had his “Boris is Hitler” gag to Amber Elliott from Total Politics, and then Guido brought you his unnecessary blunder of publishing pictures of his team grinning and laughing while posing outside Boris Johnson’s family home in Islington. The photo was quickly pulled and Ken’s spinners tried to blame Guido. He’s not sure how that one works either…

For an encore 66 year-old Ken pretended that he didn’t need glasses as he was at the height of fitness. But that one quickly unraveled…

Elsewhere this week Guido threw another grenade Trinity Mirror’s way. He highlighted how a tribunal concerning a dismissal for phone-hacking might come back to haunt their legal-eagle. Elsewhere in the phone-hacking scandal we broke that the News of the Screws journalists have been conveniently silenced until after Tory conference, and also that Dave would end contact with Rebekah Brookes with an impartial “love you”.  The climax of the Libyan revolution has humiliated BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen, once again. We also had the final wordon Labour’s shameful seduction by the Gaddafi regime. Let this be a warning to all – no wonder Ed wasn’t so keen on a No-Fly Zone back in February. The man Labour let out for access to Libyan oil has also gone missing. What a surprise.  And finally that thieving magpie Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail has been caught red-handed stealing quips from the Telegraph’s letter page, and filing it as his own copy. Isn’t there a word for that…?

As we go to pixel this week 105,224 visitors made 289,841 visits to view 448,598 pages.  The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• One Term Tories
• Brown Gets the Celtic Treatment
• Ken Publishes Photo of Boris’s Family Home
• The “Breaking” Story From Celebrity Big Brother
• Bowen Bowen Gone!
• Beckham Hacking: Mirror Cover-Up (Part I)
• Labour and Gaddafi, Follow the Money

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There’s nothing more former Treasury spinner Will Straw and his band of merry progressives like doing more than talking down the UK. So eager are they for any chance to kick Osborne that they leave their flanks vulnerable. Their graph showing Britain’s tragically anaemic growth while tragic has unintended consequences for the tax and spenders. Have a look at the three countries leading the growth figures:

We on this blog are huge fans of the Baltic model, but apart from pretty blonde girls, what do Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have in common? Well flat taxes of 24%, 25% and 33% respectively for one. Discuss…

This week 94,821 visitors made 270,314 visits to view 413,036 pages – the Silly Season low methinks, almost 100,000 fewer hits than last week’s riot packed news flow. Sally Bercow on Celebrity Big Brother not quite the same kind of ratings draw. If you want to read Guido’s weekly email round-up of the week’s news from behind the blog. Subscribe (for free) to the Guidogram email here.

The top  stories  in order of popularity were:

• Was Starkey Racist?
• Totty Watch: Right Wing Headbanger
• Red Ed’s Cuts are Dead
• Why The Cuts Are Needed
• Who the Ed are You?
• The Tears of a Clown
• So Long Sally

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With unemployment up by 38,000 to 2.49 million, the Misery Index is nearly at our most miserable this year. However the bad news isn’t all due to the rise in joblessness. The Public Sector Net Cash Requirement is not seasonally adjusted and is up considerably on last month. Either way we are 7 points more miserable then we were this time last year…

N.B. Stats bods can check Guido’s adding up here.