Government ministers ignored evidence from their own experts in a secret report who found scant social or economic justification for bidding for the 2012 London Olympics, reports today's Times.

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The Culture select committee has already had a pop at the cost overruns of the London Olympics. This week it was the turn of the Public Accounts Committee.

Rumours have been spreading around Whitehall that former England captain, David Beckham, could be about to become knighted in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's honours list. If the 31 year old former England star does get knighted, it would mean his wife, Victoria, will be known as Lady Victoria, and the man himself will be known as Sir David Beckham.

Andrew Gimson has just written the biography of Boris the Buffoon.

I once saw a mop of yellow hair walking across Hampstead Heath with a family in toe. No need to see the face to know what was underneath the mop.

The Labour government love to add bureaucracy to everything they can - but their latest wheeze, the home seller pack, could trigger an economic crisis in the UK.

Government ministers have reportedly ordered an urgent review of John Prescott's pack project.

Tony Blair has reshuffled his cabinet after the local elections after labour were pushed into third place.

He plans to hang on for a while longer by the look of it.

Jack Straw had said military action against Iran was unthinkable - and by saying that reduced the pressure on the Iranian regime - and so made military action more likely. He had to go.

The Sunday Times reports that the UK government has used lottery funds to help pay for a wind farm by a foreign company.

£10 million will go to a subsidiary of Elsam, a Danish energy giant that is being taken over by the Danish government, will help to pay for a wind farm four miles offshore in Liverpool Bay.