Spin like a top

The British Conservative Party has a new spin doctor or should I say "communications director" which is his official title. In his previous life Andy Coulson was the editor of that fine Sunday tabloid publication The News of the World, a Rupert Murdoch production. Whilst running the "newspaper" it was responsible for breaking such important stories as David Beckham's marital infidelities, paid court witnesses at the Posh Spice kidnapping trial for stories, that England wunderkind slapped his lovely girlfriend and other such critical and pressing news. Ultimately he had to leave the paper after it came to pass that one of his underlings was paying private detectives to tap the royal family's mobile phones.

Clearly his new job will be much less taxing and require less of the poor man's energy.