Meet Diana of “Putin’s Army”. She promises to “tear my clothes off for Putin”, and encourages other girls to strip to win an iPad:

Guido predicts an upward surge in the polls.

If a politician is particularly successful, or spectacularly bad, they might get a book written about them. At the last election all sorts of tat from loo-rolls to bottle openers were emblazoned with out leaders faces. It is however a rare honour to have a whole piece of furniture named after you. Unless of course you are the Speaker.

For just $429 you can be the proud owner of the Caroline Flint Day Bed.

Apparently it is the ultimate in “comfort and versatility”, as well as being “highly durable and attractive”.

Would go perfectly with some window dressing…

Monetary policy arguments can sometimes seem other-worldly, the modern equivalent of the medieval intellectual battle over how many angels can dance on the head of a pinhead? Guido (neo-Hayekian) has been rowing with Will Straw (neo-Keynesian) for years – our latest skirmish is here. It is a difficult subject to popularise in an accessible way. Straw often cites David Blanchflower, formerly of the MPC and a favourite of Gordon Brown, to back his case. Blanchflower it was who predicted a year ago that if Chancellor Osborne didn’t undertake a £90 billion stimulus package, unemployment would hit 4 million. Osborne ignored him and unemployment is down as we undergo an expansionary fiscal contraction.

In turn Guido cites the noted American actress and legendary redhead bad-girl Lindsay Lohan. She has a manifestly clearer grasp of the inflationary dangers of quantitative easing than David Blanchflower:

Have you guys seen food and gas prices lately? U.S. $ will soon be worthless if the Fed keeps printing money! http://spn.tw/t1exbE #ad—
Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 28, 2011

Lohan’s analysis is right…

Hat-tip: Fraser Nelson

An interesting move given she was tipped for the top Beeb job, though it doesn’t rule it out – Nick Robinson was poached back from ITV.  

Looks like it will be ITVLauraK on Twitter…

UPDATE: Seems it came as shock to ITV’s Political Correspondent:

RT Breaking – @BBCLauraK leaving BBC to become Business Editor for ITV News << I'd like to say I'd knew but we had NO idea—
Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) June 22, 2011

UPDATE II: Laura will start as the newly created Business Editor in September.

What on earth could have happened to Labour’s lovebirds Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger? Richard Kay reports this morning that fresh from a trip to Ibiza the couple have called off their well thought-out relationship. Good news for the Westminster’s boys though…

This isn’t the first time Luciana has had trouble with a Labour MP. Was it the same little problem her ex-lover Siôn Simon inadvertently revealed to the world? Or perhaps since Chuka’s demotion from being Miliband’s PPS the ambitious Miss Berger is aiming her sights a little higher. Though after dating the Prime Minister’s son, a minister, and then the leader’s aide-de-camp, Guido is wondering who could possibly be next…

Guido is intrigued by the imminent arrival of the Playboy Club in London. But not as excited as some it seems. One of Nadine Dorries’ many loyal internet fans signed her up for membership:

He’s a little disappointed by her response though:

Sounds like a bargain this end…

Guido doesn’t normally agree with very much that Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has to say, but he does find himself asking the same question today. How does dressing up as sluts and marching through London help protect women? 

Looked like a fun day out though…

Guido hears that the author, and member consistently voted sexiest MP on that website, has had a surprise wedding in New York.  Louise Bagshaw has tied the knot with rock and roll power broker Peter Mensch, two decades older than her, and manager of Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sigh. 

In the Guy Newsroom we watch Sky News all day and we’re big fans of the newly promoted faces reporting the political news; Ruth Barnett and Sophy Ridge. We can’t help noticing that now they are fronting the news they have both recently adopted identical hair lines. Is this a Murdoch diktat as, allegedly, with the [pictured] Fox News blondes?

Guido sources confirm that the explanation is far simpler. They share the same hairdresser.

Who’d have guessed?

Just when bored bag-carriers were wondering what they were going to do with themselves for the whole of recess, along comes SexyMP.co.uk. Someone clearly watched The Social Network and decided to bring the earliest version of “the facebook” to Westminster. The rules are very simple, you are presented with a picture of two MPs and you chose which one you would sleep with. The more points an MP the higher they go up the rankings:

Enjoy…