Guido’s blog reading co-conspirators are massive consumers of books, usually bought online courtesy of Amazon. According to the online retailer our reader’s favourite top purchases of 2011 were:

1. Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies
2. The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy
3. Zetter’s Political Companion
4. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
5. The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze
6. The Triumph of the Political Class
7. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
8. Back from the Brink: 1,000 Days at Number 11
9. Ed: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader
10. Dirty politics, Dirty times
11. The Rise of Political Lying
12. A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 (Mullin Diaires 3)

E-editions and books were combined. Pugnacious Mehdi Hasan really should be less chippy given how many of his books Guido helps shift…

Guido knows that hundreds of loafing lawyers read this blog, he also knows lawyers never do anything for free, so he is offering a reward of a copy of The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze to those who provide the best argued charges against Byers.  Either post them in the comments or email them to Guido.Fawkes@Order-Order.com (entries will be anonymous, don’t worry).

According to Channel 4’s Dispatches, which worked on the joint investigation with the Sunday Times, Byers confessed that:

1. He had secured secret deals with ministers.
2. Could get confidential information from Number 10.
3. Was able to help firms involved in price-fixing get round the law.
4. Boasted he had struck a secret deal with Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, to terminate a rail franchise contract for a client, National Express.
5. Persuaded Lord Mandelson, to amend regulations on food labelled on behalf of Tesco.

Byers now says he was lying, surely not the best defence to use in Court.