Mrs Fawkes will, Guido suspects, be cheering for Australia, her husband doesn’t have a dog in the Ashes fight. So this plea is made at the heartfelt request of many English co-conspirators: can hacks please refrain from asking the PMS at this morning’s Lobby briefing if the Prime Mentalist is backing the English cricket team? The players have a difficult enough challenge ahead of them without the Jonah jinx on their backs as well. We really, really don’t need to know what Wacko Jocko thinks of the English cricket team…