Guido did mention last week that the gentlemen of the Lobby are as thin-skinned and status conscious as a gaggle of gay hairdressers on a night out, and that Craig Oliver will need to up his game. It seems Craig takes the opposite view. He is treating them mean to keep ’em keen.

At the Conservative’s Spring Forum in Cardiff yesterday Coulson’s successor arranged to meet a group of political editors in a hotel on one side of Cardiff and then went to another hotel to meet a different group of political editors. Guido admires the casual contempt implicit in his handling of the jumped up copy takers…