If some enemy had wanted to craft a malformed news story that would render me maximally angry, this would probably do it; News International to sponsor a Gove Academy, somewhere near Wapping, as if they hadn't done enough damage.

It's not like this wasn't obvious, but it's nice to know that IFS is another Labour front.

When angry posh boy Zac Goldsmith got in trouble over his election expenses on Channel 4 News, we mischievously suggested he might be setting himself up as the first victim of his Coalition's MP recall policy.  He's come back strongly this week, piously advocating to Total Politics a Bill along those lines:

The news that tomorrow's police reforms will, in the words of the Times crime correspondent...

"scrap dozens of inspection requirements on forces and beef up HMIC"

...shouldn't come as a surprise - the flipside of the Coalition wanting us to run our own public services is that it doesn't want to pay to inspect and improve the ones it has, although quite how the inevitable corruption and decline in standards is tackled by the 'Big Society' escapes me for now. Perhaps Mr. Herbert will tell us?

First some history - the four papers that ran the co-ordinated attack on Nick Clegg after the first Leader's Debate were, of course, the Sun, Express, Mail and Telegraph.  The Mail, particularly, lambasted Clegg entirely spuriously for perceived insults to Our Glorious Fight Against Fascism, a cause the Daily Mail has always championed.  Oh hang on, that's not quite right.