Gordon Brown really is in trouble, if the latest of the Telegraph's list of Brown's biggest influences: 40-31 - Telegraph is anything to go by. Yesterday we had perennial under-achiever Charlie Whelan; today we have perennial under-achiever Bob Shrum: A US political consultant, Shrum has worked on eight presidential election… read more…

If Westmonster worked for the Obama campaign, we'd be sweating bullets: perennial loser Bob Shrum has weighed in on the Democratic race, and is calling Hillary Clinton's campaign toast. "There could still be a Clinton miracle, but by tomorrow night she is more likely to be the KOd Kid… read more…

Believe it or not, the gentleman with the arrow growing out of his head (bow before the mighty imaging skills of Westmonster) is none other than Bob Shrum, who was snapped by a reader returning to Blighty from America earlier in the week. Widely heralded as the mastermind behind the… read more…

Well, that's that then. Westmonster has duly cancelled her return ticket to Worksop. Gordon forgot the first rule of bandwagons: if you're going to start one rolling you better be damn sure that you can control the bugger if it looks like it's going to run away with itself.… read more…

BONG! In the unlikely event that Westmonster ever gets invited to a photoshoot, the words "PhotoShop me up, baby" will be very much in evidence. Poor James Purnell MP, however has learnt the bitter lesson that such technological wizardry should be left to the professionals. BONG! Shrumgate, in all… read more…