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The Guardian Media Group has just announced it is making 78 journalists redundant and closing all its weekly newspaper offices in Greater Manchester - 39 jobs will go at the Manchester Evening News and another 39 at the weeklies. Further cuts in advertising, distribution and IT will bring the total ...

Guido is inclined to belatedly give the prize for last week's caption competition to Apricot Fox who (a) managed to grasp the contest rules (b) come up with a credible potential thought for the Head of Protocol greeting Gordon on the Brown carpet with his trousers tucked in his sock. Bemuses Guido t...

She was nation's brain box darling, sweeping all opposition aside on University Challenge and even impressing the permanently unimpressed Paxman. However disaster has struck and it her team has been disqulaified on a technicality. Guido has found the cause of her troubles - a Prime Ministerial meeti...

The coverage of Brown's trip on American broadcast networks - what little coverage there was - was humiliatingly bad for Gordon. This excerpt gives you an idea. This broadcaster used words like: Wounded at home ... wanted a news conference... got a low key meeting ... didn't seem to mind being the A...

Yesterday Guido was bombarded with emails from one outraged and perhaps over-emotional Labour spinner accusing him of making up the story about staffers being invited to pad out the Congrssional chamber. So for their benefit here is an excerpt from this morning's Washington Post: ...Several dozen me...

Guido never tires of reminding his Labour minded friends that they got rid of a three-time election winning political genius and replaced him with Gordon Brown. They took a leader who instinctively understood the dynamics of a personal or political situation and replaced Blair with a man who suffers...

The Prime Mentalist arrived at the White House yesterday and was welcomed by Gladys Boluda, who as the US State Department's Chief of Protocol, is too polite to point out to Gordon that he was about to meet the most powerful man on the planet with his trousers tucked into his sock. The wittiest entr...

2008 Gordon lands in America in the morning and the dollar crashes to an all time historic low by lunchtime: 2009 Gordon lands in Washington and the Dow crashes to an historic low by teatime: Once again the Jonah effect is felt transatlantic, God punishes all those who come into contact with the acc...

This is pure comedy; Ben Brogan reflects on the gift of a pencil holder (?) made from wood from HMS Gannet: ...I wonder what Mr Obama will make of the fact that the only action it saw was in Sudan when it shelled rebels against the British empire. He's also getting Sir Martin Gilbert's seven volume ...