He loves me .. he loves me not .. he ... @ No 10

Boy David has wisely kept a low profile! Imagine what it's like when your friends - friends who have helped you, in times of need, are in trouble right up to their necks! What do you do? Do you rush to their aid, heedless of the consequences to your ambitions? Or do you pretend that, although you knew them, they did not mean that much to you!

Dilemma, eh? The real horns of a dilemma, I'd say. Suppose, just suppose, that those powerful friends get out of trouble - in fact they even return to their former power. They won't be best pleased with those who did not stand by them! Suppose, just suppose, that those friends don't get out of trouble but have other powerful friends who are still able to cast stones! Got to think of these scenarios - if you're aiming to stay in power.

So, poor old Boy David is biting his fingernails and scratching his head. What to do? What to do?

The answer is to look Prime Ministerial and be above it all. 'Friends? What friends? Didn't know I had any friends!' That's the safest approach for him to take. Even Wailing Lad Clegg is keeping his head down! Never know when he might need a friend of his own.

So, only one person has lifted his head above the parapet - Mililiband - Ed, that is, not David. Yes! Ed has come out fighting. He has called for News International or News Corp - not sure which - to give up trying to take control of BSkyB. It takes guts, Arturo told me, for anyone to do that: to stand up to the Murdoch Press. Depending on how the pendulum swings, this will be seen as a great victory or severe foolishness. I'll lay my money on victory! Ed has the people behind him, on this one. Besides, he has that rather endearing bewildered look about him - and you can never get angry with a bewildered child, can you?

The police on duty outside No 10 look very sheepish, I thought. Pity, really, as they're quite nice blokes, never once aimed a kick at either me or Arturo, which is more than I can say for others round here. But they are feeling tainted by all the gossip about the police getting back-handers from the Press. Everyone who comes in through the door of No 10 holds tightly onto their mobiles - particularly when they pass by the police. What a palaver!

So, as they say - it's all happening! What's more Boy David will have to face the heat tomorrow, it's the weekly PMQs. You know how he does tend to lose his cool, when he gets questioned. I expect the Press Gallery will be full to bursting. He'll be in full rehearsal mode tonight!

I'll keep you informed.

Bye!