Silly season is upon us and newsflow dries up as everyone heads for the beach.  Guido will be  in Ireland and the South of France, don’t expect  too much reportage, though the blog will still be updated  every day. Anyway if you were not one of the 59,060 visitors viewing 288,389 pages over the last seven days, here are the seven most popular stories (in order of popularity) that you missed:

• Cameron’s Camp Confusion
• Brown’s Unnecessary Minion
• Gordon Lurking, Still Shirking Working
• Does Anybody Really Like Balls?
• Gordon’s “I Was Right” Out in November
• Labour’s Lady of the Night
• Balls’s Bungled Pledge

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