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...

As we mentioned in Sloppy Seconds Monday, in an effort to "embrace social media" Skittles relaunched their website as a Twitter feed—meaning every Tweet that mentions Skittles appears on their homepage. Obviously, this was either incredibly idiotic or an act of genius on the part of the ...

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 ...

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Tim Ireland has uncovered a fiendishly fiendish al Qaeda plot to subvert British journalism, politics, our counter-terrorism policies, maybe even the very fabric of our way of life. Possibly. Go read for the full fiendish fiendishness....