Ron tires of badger-watching

I see from the Western Mail that my old mucker Ron Davies is considering another political comeback.

Seriously, I hope he makes it. Politics needs its colourful characters, and of all the people forced to resign from Blair's Government, he was possibly the most harshly treated.

The Little Red Book

In the unlikely event that there is anyone who reads my blog who doesn't also read Iain Dale and/or Guido Fawkes, here's a plug for their forthcoming Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze to which I and other bloggers have contributed. You can order a copy online, via Politicos, natch, by clicking here.

So does going bald make you want to go with rent boys?

As a baldy, I was both amused and relieved to read this story by Brendan Carlin in today's Daily Telegraph on the latest Mark Oaten revelations.

“Balding men generally will hardly welcome the link between hair loss and having an affair with a rent boy,” he writes.

I can of course personally attest to the truth of this observation - but what I am sure we're all dying to know is what Nick Robinson thinks.