Quote of the Day

Nice to see that Iain Martin had bigger plans when he politely declined a drunken offer to co-edit Tory Bear not long ago. His new

Wall Street Journal blog

is a must read and this morning gives us a snapshot of a day that can't come soon enough:

Anyway, there will be much sniggering on this side of the Atlantic at the PM’s elevation. He must try to close his ears to the inevitable cruel jibes, for the honour is a glimpse of his future in America if he loses the forthcoming general election. I predict that his friends, such as Paul Krugman, will secure him a grand academic post covering questions of government (brackets, Saving the World) and he will spend more and more time in the comforting embrace of the U.S. liberal establishment and ever less time in Britain. Sarah Brown will launch a transatlantic PR/charitable enterprise. They will buy a house in Cape Cod. Both will say what a relief it is to be out of the Number 10 bunker.

Still, that doesn’t stop this award being quite funny.

Whenever you're ready Gordon.