These figures are just in: 366,743 hits last month, 241,444 unique visitors and 91,249 first time visitors. Guido would like to thank you all, especially the new loonies who email every day to complain, your emails are always a pleasure to delete, the longer they are the better. If you don’t like the blog, have a full refund and don’t come back.

August is usually silly season for political reporting, but this year it will be different, because it is going to be open season on Sleazy politicians. Yates of the Yard is now back from his holidays…