Guido doesn’t have much time for Neo-Con cheerleaders, but put them in a short skirt…

Michelle Malkin is a blogger with a huge following in the U.S., five million hit her blog every month. Where are my pom-poms?

Watch her over on GuyNews.TV

Arty types are head-in-hands over proposed 35% funding cuts from 2008 – Tessa Jowell will use the money to fund the 2012 Olympics instead. So about a hundred luvvies convened at London’s Shunt Vaults last Wednesday, to try to work out what to do. Enterprising Sally Marie, a choreographer and contemporary dancer, suggested that one breakout group discuss finding other sources of funding. But only one other comrade came over to join her… and he was from the Arts Council. Sally, whose dance company received £20,000 of taxpayers money from the Arts Council last year, tells Guido that: “Arts Council funding is the lifeline for all of us – I know this as well as anyone. But it’s not a question of taxpayers money or nothing. There’s more money out there – let’s find it if we can.” How refreshingly Thatcherite.

UPDATE : Am very disappointed with the co-conspirators complete lack of wit in the comments compared to the Popbitchers on this subject. In fact they had superior political analysis as well. They are just a bunch of music media mongs.

Maybe this Kamm chap is right about you lot.

Guido’s readers have been complaining about a lack of totty and some have even complained about a bias towards pretty young Tory gels*, problem solved. Bias balanced. Ciao.

*Particularly grateful to the co-conspirator who sent pictures of a Young Conservative (in a bikini) pre and post boob job. Guido thought Tories were opposed to inflation?

In an article last week Guido suggested that Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the loss making Guardian, was paid an “obscene” £487,000 last year. Guido would like to apologise for this error since he was not paid £487,000.

Piers Morgan gets him to reveal, in a brilliant* interview, that he actually trousered £520,000 last year. Some priceless banter in the interview (see the “how much is a loaf of bread?” bit). You can sense some testosterone issues in the room. Strangely they didn’t discuss Rusbridger’s private life in much detail, which is odd when you consider what him and Piers have in common.

Wall-to-wall totty at the CF Christmas party, no wonder Mark Clarke, Conservative Future chairman, is always smiling. Francis Maude’s attendance meant that Guido was not the oldest party-goer. Guido left early – having not taken any Totty pictures. These were, once again, provided by a co-conspirator…

There were, according to another co-conspirator, some complaints in the ladies lavs about the lack of single, heterosexual men. So many gorgeous girls, so few worthy men. Now Guido feels guilty about missing the party.

It was so nice that Petronella Wyatt and Boris Johnson could both make the party.

Oh to have been a canape when they met…

Ros Taylor writes the formerly pedestrian weekly Backbencher column for the Guardian. She was told some months ago by the political editor to “sex it up”. You know, so it was more like those blogs, racy, more damn sexy.

She took it literally and started a new feature “Political Hotties”, asking readers to nominate good looking politicians. (A lot of the nominations were foreign young women MEPs, not too surprising after looking around the Palace of Westminster – not all the gargoyles are on the architecture.) The Sun noticed and called it sexist, which it is, as well as discriminating against ugly people. How refreshingly politically incorrect. Lets hope the Guardianista public sector advertisers and student union readers don’t notice and start a boycott.

Guido has managed to locate a grainy picture of both Ros and her cartoon alter ego. Guido’s cartoon representation (above) whilst handsome enough, if anything fails to fully capture his roguish charm. I wonder however if readers think the same can be said for the Backbencher? Is Ros Taylor ‘hot totty’ or notty?

Guido’s readers previously reckoned Newsnight’s Martha Kearney their favourite political hottie and definitely wanted her to replace Andrew Marr.

UPDATE: Ros emails to complain “Really, Guido, you need to calm down and get your facts right. If you’d been reading the Backbencher you’d know the efforts to which we have gone to achieve a gender balance among the Political Hotties. And we’d never be so graceless as to ask whether an MP was hot or not; we just flatter the ones our readers choose to nominate.” Details dear, mere details.

But isn’t the whole ‘hottie’ concept a bit un-PC, never mind uncharitable, if not dangerous. To highlight the more beautiful politicians of any sex rather than judge them purely on their merits as servants of the people, seems not only shallow, but distasteful. Implicitly Ros is making a value judgement on appearances. Replace “hottie” with “Aryan” and you’ll see where this leads. Should we judge journalists by their picture byline rather than what they write? (See Guido can do Guardianista gobbledeegook.)