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• Carol Vorderman + David Cameron = better maths teaching for kids

  Former Countdown numbers queen and star-of-annoying-insurance-and-loan-ads Carol Vorderman has gone over to the dark side, sorry, joined forces with the Tories to head a maths taskforce. Vorders has accepted an offer from David Cameron (come on Dave, how much did it cost?) to assess whether school tests have got easier and if kids are being taught maths... Posted Feb 03 2009, 02:52 PM by Guru Filed under: david cameron, television, maths, TV, conservatives, carol vorderman, Countdown

• Cameron Strictly off his rocker

  Great to see that leader of the opposition David Cameron took his big opportunity last week to distance himself and the Tory party from the reality TV nonsense that has overtaken the government. With the world facing both financial and climatic meltdown, Cameron took the opportunity to speak to voters on an issue that really mattered - John Sergeant's... Posted Nov 25 2008, 07:34 AM by Guru Filed under: david cameron, Strictly Come Dancing

• Tory tax plans: Philpott calls it again

  Could it be that leading politicians really are taking their cues from Guru's favourite HR pundit John Philpott? After the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's chief economist called for the US Senate to pass President Bush's $700bn bailout package, and for the Bank of England to slash interest rates , he most recently moved... Posted Nov 12 2008, 08:21 AM by Guru Filed under: david cameron, unemployment, Bank of England, tax cuts, President Bush, John Philpott, bailout

• Harman in Cameron 'wicked way' warning

  David Cameron is not on Guru's Christmas card list - or even his urinate-at-if-on-fire list - but Yours Truly was still shocked at an attack on him at the Labour Party conference last week. Yep, women's minister Harriet Harman really went to town on poor old Dave up in Manchester - although maybe her bitterness reflected incidents earlier in... Posted Sep 26 2008, 12:52 PM by Guru Filed under: politics, david cameron, wicked way, Labour party conference, Harriet Harman

• David Cameron - a picture of indifference

  While Gordon Brown stuffed his face in Japan, The Tory prime minister-in-waiting joined the queue to take a swipe at the nation's larger-than-life fatties, Guru notes . But his latest stance that people who eat too much and those who are too poor... Posted Jul 09 2008, 03:04 PM by Guru Filed under: gordon brown, politics, crime, drugs, tory, dorian gray, MP, papua new guinea, poor, david cameron