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• Confirmed: Susie Will Spin for CCHQ
  .@GuidoFawkes scoop confm'd, Susie Squire going to CCHQ to replace the retiring Henry Macrory My take on what it means, specc.ie/KjOOXu— James Forsyth (@JGForsyth) May 22, 2012 As revealed here this morning… Tagged: CCHQ, Spin, Tories
  
  
• Islanders’ Desperate Plea to Gove After Academy Stitch Up
  Vested interests in the education world know no bounds in their opposition to academies, but this one is a corker. The headteacher of the only school on the Isles of Scilly was hastily suspended yesterday, without explanation, after it emerged that he was venturing to the mainland and travelling all the way...
  
  
• Ian “Psycho” Edmondson Goes to Loaded
  Great Standard scoop that the former Screws News Editor Ian Edmondson is off to edit lads mag Loaded. With the mag’s circulation plummeting, this looks like a risky last roll of the dice. The thunderous hack says he wants to restore the mag to it’s “glory days” with a “bad...
  
  
• Balls Blamed for Byrne Putsch “The Punishment Beatings Are Back”
  This snippet from Rachel Sylvester’s column, stuck behind the Times pay-wall, deserves a wider audience: “At Westminster, Mr Balls can be overbearing. An attempt to oust Liam Byrne, the Blairite Work and Pensions Secretary, from the Shadow Cabinet, which was resisted by Mr Miliband, is blamed by some on the Shadow...
  
  
• Leaky Watson
  If his rapidly fading smug smile was anything to go by, Tom Watson got a much tougher ride at Leveson than he was expecting. He was probed about McBride and Smeargate, denying any knowledge of a plan to counter Guido, despite the Red Rag website actually being set up. He was also cornered on...