Hot news! David Cameron has changed his hair. Until recently he parted it on the left. Now, suddenly, he parts it on the right. What can this mean? According to Hair Part Theory (Google it) a parting on the left draws attention to masculine attributes, whereas a parting on the right highlights the feminine. A PR man as canny as Cameron would surely know this. In which case, why the switch?

Extensive picture research shows that the change occured soon after Prime Minister’s Questions last Wednesday, and sometime before 11.58am the following day. So we reckon it’s something to do with Trident.

-If there was ever a man unlikely to make a wager over a bottle of champagne, then we’d have thought that man, would be Gordon Brown. A bottle of gruel, maybe. A bottle of fizzy water with the fizz taken out. Nothing fancy.

How wrong we were. The Israeli Embassy confirms that the Chancellor recently lost a bet with Shmuel Ben Tovim (the Minister for Economic Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in London) that air passenger duty operated at a higher basic rate of £40 per passenger outside the European Union, and a basic rate of £10 per passenger within it. He was, of course (hilariously) forgetting about Turkey and most of the former Yugoslavia. What fun.

-Speaking at the Oldie of the Year Awards, Sir Terry Wogan hit back at reports that he is paid £1,000 an hour to host Children In Need . “I’ve been away on holiday. I’ve been ignoring this — it’s beneath contempt. I’ve been doing this show for 28 years and I’ve never taken anything. It all goes straight to the children. This has got nothing to do with Children In Need . The BBC pay it.”

-ConservativeHome.com reprints an e-mail, rather disloyally, that was sent out to staff at the Conservative Party’s new super-green headquarters before a visit from an ITN film crew on Monday. The e-mail explained that only a small part of the office would be filmed, such as the recycling bins, recycled doors and a recycled floor. “Please also make sure your waste bins are not obviously full of paper!!” it adds. Obviously?

-The world’s most famous cowboy, President Bush likes to present himself as a horny-handed son of the soil, never happier than when wielding a lasso. Strange, then, to read a quote in a White House pool report from a lady he met on a recent trip to Georgia. “He’s got very soft hands.”

-The website myheritage.com asks you to scan in a picture of yourself and then tells you which celebrity you most resemble. Farmers Weekly fed in David Miliband, and found him to be a 63 per cent match for the actor Rupert Grint. Surprising? Maybe. Having tried it on his own picture, your People columnist is thrilled to learn he is a 72 per cent match for Heidi Klum.

-Lily Allen announced: “I’m a bit p***ed already,” before taking to the stage at at the Hammersmith Apollo. “All right? I got a bit enthusiastic with the Jägermeister.” Later, outside her after-show party in Soho, she reportedly got into at least three seperate fights with photographers. Rock on.

Postscript

Richard Gere on Carey Lowell, his wife: “She’s a wonderful actress,” he tells Parade magazine. “But she’s really a mother and wife. If work fits in to family, then she does it, but not the other way around.” How very Mel Gibson.

-No matter that the foam noses on set at the BBC’s Fame Academy Special are all part of raising funds for Comic Relief. They have been deemed a fire risk and banned. “It's not just red noses, it’s papers, bottles and bags as well,” whines a spokeswoman from Endemol. “

-After Marie Antoinette, I was feeling that I had to prove myself,” Kirsten Dunst tells W magazine. “Like, I didn’t do it. I didn’t prove myself enough. Then I thought, ‘Whatever’. I’m in a really happy place, and I want to do a fun movie. Why do I want to be superserious chick all the time?”

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