Common Endeavour

• Starting on a serious note, heartfelt sympathies to David and Samantha Cameron, whose son Ivan died overnight;
• BoJo accused of being "unwise" in how he acted in his capacity as chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (via Tom Harris). D'you know, if you were one of those Porter-esque police-state conspiracy theorists, you could almost argue that this had serious implications in terms of the neutrality of the fuzz. But Boris is a Tory, so that's okay. Tory Troll has more here and Bob Piper wonders something similar with regard to Chris Grayling's latest Big Brother stylings;

• Mandelson denies charges he's got the Royal Mail pension fund chained up in the back;
• Tom Harris fears being beaten around the head with a copy of Erskine May by the whips' office after accidentally forcing a vote on Susan Kramer's Ten Minute Rule Bill on Heathrow yesterday. Smooth work, Tom!
• Alex Salmond compares himself with Barack Obama. Why so modest, Alex?
• Harriet Harman continues to be a busy little bee;
• The sisterhood and Gail Trimble (all hail!) finds an unlikely ally in the form of Allison Pearson and, slightly more convincingly, in Tim;
• ... and spEak You're bRanes on roaring form over the BBC Have Your Say debate about the increased profits of fast food outlets.

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