Tom Watson: no media party animal

Medialand party planners, take note: don't bother including Tom Watson MP in your Christmas party invite lists. The self-appointed scourge of the Murdochs tells his West Bromwich constituents, in an article for local paper the Express & Star , that since the phone-hacking scandal escalated in the summer he gets invited "to a lot of media events". "Frankly, they're a little tedious." Whaaaaat? "In fighting a campaign to expose the essential vacuity and unpalatable behaviour of large chunks of the London-based media, I have unwittingly become someone of passing interest to the London-based media." Monkey may be London-based, vacuous and unpalatable. But tedious? How dare you.