6 Degrees of Smear

Miliband's Russian cousin admits she was close to Stalin's daughter | Mail Online

You can't fault them for effort, can you? Expect more in this series, as required:

Cable's wife's uncle's barber admits shaving Oswald Moseley's grandson

Balls defends gardener's stepson's "wimps" slur on our heroes

Harman college chum's brother starves cat for 4 hours

Mum! When's the shooting bit?

Found amongst the slopbucketloads of the Raoul Moat crim-porn saga:

What future for Raoul Moat? | Rothbury | Raoul_Moat | Life of Crime | Sky News Blogs: "That future is likely to be spent in jail and what kind of future is that for a violent and angry 37-year-old man who is mourning the loss of his family and business?"

Yeah... so, all you people trying to put the Murdochs out of business; take a look at yourselves! Do you really want to be responsible for another tragedy?

Perhaps you shouldn't answer that.

Unedifying though this whole spectacle is, there is nonetheless something refreshing - in a World Cup summer - about watching the English press salivate over the prospect of a shoot-out...

Infernal Contraptions!

No Rock And Roll Fun: Sunday Express makes a Twit of itself

"Unbelievably, it appears to have taken two Sunday Express typists, David Jarvis and David Stephenson, to pull together an inept wannabe-expose into the BBC's use of Twitter..."

I really have nothing to add to this; but I can try to get it three or four more readers.

If only I could somehow get "David & David" a few million less...