Intriguing stuff over at politicalbetting.com, where Mike Smithson is calling out one of his commenters over welching on a bet. The commenter, called The Observer (maybe he's a Silver Surfer fan but The Watcher was already taken), claims to be a "senior member" of the LibDems and offered a bet… read more…

Chris Huhne's posturing over Donorgate looks even more hollow (after we pointed out yesterday that Chrissy's honour-bound to bankrupt the LibDems if he ever becomes leader of them) as it is revealed - again - that the Durham business park had nothing to do with getting the approval of the comrades… read more…

BONG! Okay, so seriously - what tomorrow: a plague of locusts perhaps? Warts and boils? The Gord's troubles are truly Biblical, and the latest one is slowly but definitely settling around the actions of Harriet Harman (wife of the Labour Party Treasurer) who stands accused of breaching electoral law by… read more…

Imagine the scene. You're a Prime Minister who has to leave the country to partake of tea, cucumber sandwiches, and pointless diplomacy with Brenda in Africa for a week. You leave a "to do" list pinned to the fridge, a list of emergency numbers by the phone, and stress to Alan Johnson… read more…

Military blokes use the opportunity of the Gord's absence (he's in Uganda) to aim some bitchslapping at the Government. Classy work, boys. More damning, perhaps, is the National Audit Office report regarding the undreamed of wealth made by ten civil servants at the public expense. At the end of… read more…

Predictably, the Affair of the Missing Disks is the top story this morning, although the Today Programme seems to be getting unusually excited about a prehistoric crab. Humphrys must be having one of his hot flushes again. Ann Treneman reports on the Parliamentary response to the data-loss news, the Telegraph… read more…

BONG! A bird flu outbreak has been identified on the Norfolk-Suffolk border and, as we speak, half the hacks in London are decamping to the shires in order to hunt out errant poultry, interview the local populace about who in DEFRA should resign (correct answer: all of them), and speculate on… read more…

BONG! The Tories have written to Jacqui Smith demanding she yield unto them the head of Ian Blair. Preferably on a spike. BONG! The day after the Election that Wasn't, Political Betting ponders if the situation might have gone the other way for Davy had the Observer published their poll… read more…