The GQ spread featuring Mrs Mensch has caused a lot of excitement in the Guy Newsroom. The combination of throbbing soundtrack, the minxy pout and the neo-Thatcherite fashion sense really does it for us.

The Guidoisation of politics continues apace…

With the internet being down all morning, the working year has got off to slow start in the Guy Newsroom.  That is not to say there wasn’t much hilarity on the way in. It seems every single person still supporting Ken Livingstone was summoned today to hand out leaflets in the pouring rain at tube stations. Guido was so amused to find that he wasn’t the only one telling them to p**s off, that he tried to film the shenanigans at his stop. For some reason the TFL staff thought he was a domestic terrorist and moved him on…

Downstairs his plan for a quick and easy story didn’t come together very well either. The leaflets to the right were scattered up the length of the platform, but sadly the pencil-skirted young lady with an exquisite derrière, just out of shot, thought Guido was trying to take a picture of something else. Luckily the immediate arrival of a train saved a further altercation with security. Either way Ken’s leafleting drop is hardly the mobilisation his campaign staff are heralding it to be in their post-match tweeting. Nobody seemed very interested. Something the campaign should probably start getting used to…

There has been a lot of discussion about the flawed elections in Russia. Guido reckons their democracy can’t be that bad if they will elect a Playboy playmate has been elected as one of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia MPs in the Duma. Guido has no idea what her manifesto was but he’d vote for Maria Kozhevnikova, 27.

She was a member of the youth wing of Putin’s political party United Russia, which is currently facing allegations of vote-rigging after this month winning a narrow overall majority in parliament. There have been suggestions that she is romantically linked to Putin. C’mon he’s no Berlusconi… is he?

For those co-conspirators who missed ITV’s This Morning yesterday, here is what Guido’s drinking buddy Lembit is up to nowadays. Modelling underwear. Where did it all go wrong?

There are bigger stories out there today, but one final word on this Nazi costume controversy. Guido isn’t defending MPs turning a blind eye to such antics, but the hypocrisy around this whole affair knows no bounds. Take Charlotte Hale for example, staffer to Labour MP Emma Reynolds:

Strong words, but what’s this Charlotte?

Sieg Hale!

On the day Guido brings you the news that Mike Hancock is off to his favourite country in the whole wide world, the Indy reports that the lusty LibDem, while on the Defence Select Committee, got lobbyists to bung cash to his assistant. The same one that is facing deportation for spying. And he was sleeping with. A picture of the two having late night West End cocktails has been floating around for a couple of months and today Guido can bring you two more pics, from the same night:

Staring into each others eyes, sipping red cocktails, dreaming of the motherland…

Something tells Guido that radio’s Iain Dale knew exactly what he was doing when he sat down for an in conversation piece with Sally Bercow:

ID: What’s your favourite gadget? Steady…

SB: I was going to say my vibrator [giggles].

ID: I knew you were going to say that. Are you going to claim that is off the record?

SB: Oh no, put that in.

Fire up the press releases!

Bet it wasn’t just the men in tights that winced at this one…

Which mid-market tabloid editor recently sat down with his whispering broadsheet rival and made it clear that unless the latter’s attacks on his paper were toned down, the broadsheet editor would soon be seeing the fact that he keeps his mistress on his staff in the pages of the said tabloid?

The circular firing squad is getting personal…

Good on Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy. She posted a naked picture of herself on her blog and it’s launched a national debate in Egypt about sex, women, morality and freedom.

It’s not safe for work/pre-Mubarak Egyptian society, but her site has had over a million and half views since. Guido will be posting his own topless pictures in solidarity later…