Guido has noticed that The Times’s Sarah Vine has more than a passing interest in writing about the male form. Take this morning’s column about that Russian for example:

Vine is also known as Mrs Gove. Guido knows he has had a rough couple of months after having Balls beat him up over the summer, but hadn’t realised Gove’s standing had dropped quite that low. The Secretary of State for Education was unavailable for comment…

The Russians fluster:

“As for the eagerness with which some media in the UK are trying to stage a vaudeville about the worn-out spy plot, this cannot fail to awaken pity. We have no illusions that in Britain there are and will be highly influential forces, who are not interested in the normalisation of Russian-British relations. We hope, however, that the London Government’s stated policy of improving bilateral co-operation will be reinforced by concrete acts.”

On the day that Ed Miliband reopened the class war that worked so well for Labour at the election, it seems not everyone got the memo. Wee Dougie Alexander didn’t even wait for the press release to be sent out about a speech he had just given to the Child Poverty Action Group AGM before he was EyeSpyed in St James’s for lunch at Marco Pierre White’s Wheelers.

Guido wonders many children the £100 per head bill could have fed and clothed.

Keeping to a musical theme today Jerzy Buzek, the President of the European Parliament, tweeted about the anniversary of John Lennon’s death:

“Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do”

They say Buzek’s a dreamer, but he’s not the only one.

UPDATE: Guido’s own tweet to pay his respects to John was jumped on by hundreds of people telling him that it was actually George Harrison who wrote the song Taxman. Debatable:

“In 1980, Lennon recalled in an interview with Playboy magazine, “I remember the day he [Harrison] called to ask for help on ‘Taxman’, one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along, because that’s what he asked for.”

Apology from Twittersphere ignorati accepted…

The only sitting MP to have been found guilty of breaking the Representation of the Peoples Act, Labour’s Kerry McCarthy, thought she was being funny when she highlighted that Morrissey and his old band mate Johnny Marr want to “ban” Dave from listening to The Smiths. A blatant test to see if he was a fan and the PM managed to reply with two song names. Obviously he went with“This Charming Man”, being the song that people who have never even heard of The Smiths have heard, however Guido wonders whether Dave really should have chosen, in reference to Hague, “William, It Was Really Nothing”. Was it the only other song he could think of?

Any Smiths fan could tell you the song  is about trying to persuade a friend not to waste his life by getting married to someone for all the wrong reasons. Awkward…

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