Looking for the loo

Two little gems from Kevin Maguire’s column at The New Statesman. More in the same vein can be found in his column.

First

That celebrated haunt of left-wingers who prefer to plot on a full stomach, the Gay Hussar eatery in Soho, central London, has an unusually large number of diners loitering on the stairs to the lavatories. A photograph of Gordon Brown with Damian McBride is detaining guests.

The manager, John Wrobel, has rejected bids for the snap and is considering screwing it to the wall for safekeeping. He has agreed, however, to give a print to a BBC regular who suffered McNasty’s hairdryer treatment and would like a copy to smile at every night before he goes to bed.

Second

Further to my snippet about Barack Obama accidentally wandering into the No 10 political office on his way to the toilet, I now hear that his trip wasn’t entirely by accident. Aware he’d need to pass their den to get to the loo, the unit’s plotters and poisoners asked Downing Street staff to keep topping up the president’s coffee cup. A mandarin mutters that the president may have found the real toilet when he entered the political lair.

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