Laura Kuenssberg / Dominic Cummings

[Jah Womble]

I'll miss his Spitting Image puppet

We’ll need a home for retired Spitting Image puppets before long.

Or just maybe stick them in a new show with better writing.

[Nocturnal Submission]

No need to retire the puppet. He might have left No. 10, for now at least, but he'll remain (heh!) a prominent political figure.

[Satchmo Distel]

Carrie seems to be the dumbed down WAG equivalent of Marcia Williams, the private secretary of Harold Wilson. Speaking of whom, I never knew this (Wiki):

In 1967, Wilson sued the pop group The Move for libel after the band's manager Tony Secunda published a promotional postcard for the single "Flowers in the Rain", featuring a caricature depicting Wilson in bed with Falkender. Wilson won the case, and all royalties from the song were assigned in perpetuity to a charity of Wilson's choosing.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I find the Carrie thing quite bewildering. I can't really make this point clearly for legal reasons connected with a story that was circulating a few months ago, where one needed to Twitter-search a key compound noun to find out what was going on, and we were all careful not to expose this board to liability, but I'll just say that there's an odd contrast between her apparent lack of control over Johnson in, ahem, matters relevant to her status as his fiancee and, if we believe some stuff to come out in the last 48 hours, her apparent excessive influence over his actions as PM.

[Nefertiti2]

We have no idea what her influence is or is not on either story. We have just seen a staged performance from a government whose expertise in staging events for the media appears their only area of competence.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Carrie seems to be the dumbed down WAG equivalent of Marcia Williams, the private secretary of Harold Wilson. Speaking of whom, I never knew this (Wiki):

I remember this got a lot of mentions when John Major sued the New Statesman (and nearly put it out of business) in the early 90s for its allegations that he was having an affair with a caterer* - I think the Wilson case was then the previous time a PM had sued for libel.

*If only they had alleged that he'd had an affair with Edwina Currie, they wouldn't have lost the libel case and would have got the scoop at a time it was most interesting.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

....there's an odd contrast between her apparent lack of control over Johnson in, ahem, matters relevant to her status as his fiancee and, if we believe some stuff to come out in the last 48 hours, her apparent excessive influence over his actions as PM.

Some reports of some stories might suggest that she might have established control in several matters.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Carrie seems to be the dumbed down WAG equivalent of Marcia Williams, the private secretary of Harold Wilson. Speaking of whom, I never knew this (Wiki):

It was pretty big news at the time. Private Eye had been trailing oblique comments for ages, so the only real surprise was how clumsy Secunda's cartoon was. The Move weren't happy with him either.

[anton pulisov]

Is Gove the guy who was against the Belfast Agreement?

[Gangster Octopus]

Yup.

[ursus arctos]

I've just read some Marcia Williams obituaries.

It was a very different time.

[Gangster Octopus]

She died surprisingly recently.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/sime0nstylites/status/1327703289824235522

[S. aureus]

Good Lord!

[Nefertiti2]

The Observer joining in the sentimental bullshit

https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1327726222764290048?s=20

[Diable Rouge]

Johnson now has to self-isolate after coming into contact with a positive Covid case.

[Sean of the Shed]

Kuenssberg has only just heard. She now has to go looking for news instead of having it spoonfed to her.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/ad...eives-pay-off/

Sajid Javid's former adviser receives a pay off after being sacked by Cummings. Settled before it went to the tribunal.

[DCI Harry Batt]

That's from November. Thought I'd already heard that news.

[Antepli Ejderha]

That's from November. Thought I'd already heard that news.

Sorry, didn't check the date. It just appeared in my news feed and I'd assumed it was new.