Today’s Mirror splashes on “heartless” George Osborne giving his SpAd Rupert Harrison, apparently “one of the chief architects” of the “cruel austerity drive”, a 19% pay rise.

The story very much upset Man of the People Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire, who Peter Oborne has the temerity to speculate is on rather more than Rupert:

@Kevin_Maguire Kevin – Harrison's salary has risen to £95k. Am I right to speculate that you get quite a bit more than that?

— Peter Oborne (@OborneTweets) December 19, 2014

@Kevin_Maguire Why is there one rule for Daily Mirror columnists and another for government special advisers?

— Peter Oborne (@OborneTweets) December 19, 2014

@Kevin_Maguire To put it another way, if you think Harrison overpaid what does that make you?

— Peter Oborne (@OborneTweets) December 19, 2014

Kerching!