William Hague is a winner for facing insinuations head on and killing the story before it sprouted arms and legs, which would have happened had he not come forward so strongly. Some think, by talking about their personal lose, grieve and the difficulties him and his wife Ffion endured, he went too far. Maybe it was a lot of information, but in this occasion it needed to be shared and that was that.

The loser has to be the BBC’s Radio 4, the Today programme, who, did not even try to hide their direct attack on the Tories. By having two top Tory-haters, John Prescott and Sally Bercow, respectively discussing phone taping allegations and William Hague’s statement, is beyond bizarre. But what I found even more astonishing is John Humphrey spoon feeding Prescott, Andy Coulson’s direct involvement – while all Lord Prescott wanted was to prove that, despite numerous attempts by him, his input was dismissed by the Met!

The BBC’s shameful political bias is not a revelation, but it will help if every once and awhile they pretend to be fair, neutral and acted as if they can do balanced even if it is just to seen objective!

According to Tony Blair, the Labour leadership is a three horse race, between the two Miliband brothers and Ed Balls. If the Labour party members agree with him, then the obvious Labour leader is David Miliband. It also explains why Ed Balls was so miffed this morning.

In the three years since Blair left office, he kept deliberately very quite and out of UK politics. He told Andrew Marr in last night’s interview, that he knew how it felt to be judged by former leaders, and he did not want to be that person. Staying away all this time and only appearing to help his party during the general election gives him a lot of credence.

If Labour membership felt the same way he did, and elected David Miliband for leader, our politics will become even more interesting – with similarish three main party leaders, two of whom in coalition, ruling and officially working together and the third agreeing with everything they say and do – oh what fun!

If you did not get your copy of A Journey by our former PM, Tony Blair, I suggest that you do. It is such a great and compelling read, I don’t think I will be doing much else for the rest of this week.

Very nicely written, it flows easily, and is a real good page turner – I struggled to put it down and write this few words, so I can claim that I have blogged today – and to encourage everyone, specially political anoraks out there to get their copy.

Both Amazon and Waterstone’s are selling the book at half price. Plus, all proceeds will go to a very good and worthy cause!

Judging by the news we read, yes, it sadly is! At a time when the focus should be on humanitarian aid and assistance, all we hear and read about is game fixing, aid donations going into officials’ pockets – the rich keep getting richer of the back of this crisis while the poor and the needy just perish!

One can’t help but wonder, does anybody in Pakistan actually cares about what happens to the country? I am not talking about the weak and helpless who have no power or means of influence. I am speaking about those who are well traveled and well connected, those who when the going gets tough can up and go at a moment’s notice. I am talking about the self styled, self appointed leaders and those who are entrusted with managing and representing the country and helping her people. Do they actually care, and if they don’t, then, why!?

It seems the level of corruption is so high and goes so deep, and what’s more; it is no longer hidden or a secret.

The west, needs Pakistan, for reasons all too clear and obvious, to be and stay stable. However, before that can happen the country needs to sort it self out internally, because, with the best intentions, the west and the international community have, giving aid and support that continuously ends up in the wrong hands, will have an adverse effect and its repercussions will be grave.

Just when the Silly Season started to become interesting, recess is ending. Forget New and Old Labour now we have Bitchy Labour – Tony Blair who won the party three consecutive general elections is now a taboo, not be talked about and preferably never to be mentioned again!!

In addition to that, Labour is juggling two fighting rings, simultaneously, on one side they have Peter (The Prince of Darkness) Mandelson tearing down Ed (The Younger) Miliband. This fight is bloody, nasty and Mandy is not fighting by the rules.

On the other stage we have a cage fight, a dirty fight, between John (Left Hook, Go Fourth, just give me a cause to fight over) Prescott; he eats puppies for breakfast and washes it down with a milkless dozen raw eggs milk shake. He is fighting Tom (The Honest Labourite, tell it as it is) Harris, who has age and agility on his side provided Prescott does not sit on him.

Burning old bridges plus two internal fights are set to keep the rest of this summer sizzling!

Who’s the nasty party now!

Is becoming Labour’s thing. This time, John Prescott jumped in, feet first all over the new 1-1-1 NHS number, putting together a petition, and tweeting regular updates. Except, with all the excitement, that his beloved NHS is being destroyed by the ruthless right Tory lead government, he forgot to check his facts!

This idea, was proposed and piloted by Labour, last year, in the North East. Which makes this whole commotion another silly season non- story tale and just another egg- on – your – face exercise, own goal by Labour!

If that is the best Labour can do, they better get comfortable, because their time in opposition will be very long!

Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are the only social media applications I use, therefore I can easily speak from personal experience. They each have and serve a different purpose. Facebook has put me and kept me in touch with family & friends all over the world, it has also introduced me to some brilliant people that I might never have meet has it not been for fb, and for that I very much value Facebook. I use LinkedIn solely for business, but Tweeter is my all rounder social media, it is sharp versatile and at 140 characters, I aim to use only 120, it is an art tweeting a coherent valuable message to your followers – and post it at once on all three networks.

So when this morning I read that Paul Carr has quit all social media for good, to be honest I did not know what to think, except why the drama!? And do people really become that obsessed twittering and facebooking that they need to go cold turkey rather than exercise self control and just cut back?

Does that mean, now, we are going to have a group of social media casualties, with square eyes and twitchy fingers clutching at their Smartphones?

If we are being honest, people with additive tendencies will always go a little OTT with whatever they do, twittering and facebooking included. But lets’ get real here, it is not at all a reason to quit social media all together, is it!?

Labour leadership hopeful, Ed Balls, gave a speech to Bloomberg, titled the Growth Diners, in response to George Osborne’s speech from 10 days ago.

In a little over 6200 words, the speech was a lesson in History “his version of it”, Politics, Economics and a recap of his visit to the East Coast of America. He reiterated Labour’s promise of cutting the budget deficit over four years but gave no real solutions or alternatives.

I guess, the public should now feel relieved and vindicated in booting Brown out, as his protégée, Ed Balls would have changed nothing and carried on business as usual, sinking this country deeper into recession!

And they are giving it back in attitude and verbal abuse, which never resolves any issue, except it leaves the recipient very incensed!

After last year’s expenses scandal, that resulted in the highest turn over of MPs in a generation and with a new style government in place the public was looking forward to a fresh political experience! Although, the coalition is going from strength to strength, it seems members of parliament are having a much wobblier start with the fees office. With reports of tantrums, acts and language of abusive nature, one wonders is it all due to the big shake up and change in the system or is there more than meets the eye.

But the question still remains, why a year on, the expenses scandal and its derivatives keep rearing its head every time news is a little sluggish!?

Could David Miliband be the fresh new thing that Labour so desperately needs now? In a speech last night he said: “Labour needed to learn from former Tory chancellor RA Butler, arguing that the party should not merely oppose every move the Coalition Government makes” and hinted that Labour should accept the need to cut public spending by rolling back the power of the state.

Very Coalitionisc!