According to Dan Hodges Ed Miliband’s interesting questioning of David Cameron’s judgement, less than 24 hours after losing his disastrous Shadow Chancellor, has gone down like a cup of sick in Tory circles. In revenge for the scalping apparently a mysterious and shadowy unofficial figure is funding private detectives to dig around at Tom Baldwin’s past:

“Although the investigators were initially recruited prior to the announcement of Coulson’s departure, the events of the past week have added to the determination to gather information that could embarrass Ed Miliband and senior members of his staff. “Before Coulson resigned it was business. Now it’s personal,” said another informed source.”

Tom might want to change his answer phone PIN and lose Charlie’s number.

Peter Bingle hits the nail on the head:

“At the moment the Labour leader has two major problems to overcome. How he looks and what he says.”

As the attention surrounding phone hacking widens beyond the News of the World, Guido thought he would be the first person to ask what former employees of other tabloid newspapers knew about the widespread practice.

Take former Mirror man Bob Roberts for example. Can he hand on heart suggest he had no idea phone hacking was taking place, when his newspaper was proven to be by far the worst “blaggers” by the Information Commissioner with nearly 2,000 cases of their journalists pretending to be someone they were not in order to gain information they were  not entitled to, or worse still bribing phone company, HMRC or DVLC employees:

Guido is looking forward to the Guardian pursuing Ed Miliband’s press man with vigour…

UPDATE: Bob tells Guido “categorically” that he had “no knowledge or personal experience” of phone hacking during his time at the Mirror.

There was stiff competition to win War on Terror – The Boardgame in Friday’s caption contest, but it was “What’s your poison?” that got the Guy Newsroom clapping.

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This is Courtney Love, newly elected as Oxford University Conservative Association’s ‘Non-Executive Officer for Rock and Roll’. She was elected to her position tonight after an evening of drinking, in this instance the teen spirit was port. Courtney contributed to the OUCA Port & Policy debate calling for a foreign policy based on morality and said Wikileaks was a step forward for democracy. She is pictured above twirling Winston Churchill’s cane and below with the Vivienne Westwood clad president-elect, Joe Cooke. Appropriate for Conservative caners…