Quote of the day

"David Cameron: I did ride police horse loaned to Brooks"

Somewhat implausibly, a headline from the BBC News site rather than Daily Mash.

In other political news, Cameron's strategy chief has fled to the US to take up an unpaid academic sabbatical position. Apparently Steve Hilton is notorious for padding about the corridors of power in his socks without a tie chuntering on about "blue sky thinking". Wonder how Armando Iannucci came up with The Thick Of It's Stewart Pearson, then?