Make sure we keep up with Jones

First of all, a happy new year to everyone. I hope 2010 is a prosperous one for all.

Now, the real business of this, the first blog of the new decade. As you may know from today's press, GQ magazine have decided Gordon Brown is the worst dressed man of the year. David Cameron comes in at number eight, on the best-dressed list, more on this later. (Full story here.)

Ordinarily, I would have no problem with this, apart from it being a nonsense story. In this case however, I am stimulated to speak out as there is an undeniable conflict of interest in this piece, that is not being reported on. Another instance of Mainstream Media fail?

Dylan Jones is the editor of GQ magazine, and also the author of 'Cameron on Cameron', a rather sickly, sycophantic book from the Antony Seldon-Blair school of hagiography. Jones also penned a piece in this weekend's Mail on Sunday supplement on 'Karaoke Cameron' and how he plans to 'strike the keynote for the great election battle.'

Is this not a clear conflict of interest? A magazine edited by someone who has interviewed Cameron dozen of times over the past few years, decides Brown dresses badly (which he does, no complaint from me) and Cameron dresses well (again, not an unreasonable assertion) and noone mentions the rather pertinent connection between the two? If it were in the Commons, Jones would have to declare it!