Iain Dale: Don’t knock Mancock, er, Hancock

The Conservatives ought to learn from him. Plus: Vote, vote, vote for Widdecombe. Fire and Fury is damp and limp. My teeth, oh, my teeth. And: My quest to enter Phillip Lee’s brain.

Iain Dale: This reshuffle could have promoted and prioritised housing. But all we got was a name change.

Plus: The mystery of the missing Kwasi Kwarteng. The presence of the ebullient Brandon Lewis. The absence and recovery of Nick de Bois. Plus: Capita’s failures.

It’s been another good week for Rees-Mogg

His debut as a phone-in host offered an indication that – despite being posh and old-fashioned – he has an exceptional ability to communicate in modern Britain.

Iain Dale: Wotcha, Peston. WTF are you on?

My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.

Iain Dale: My listeners praised May for having the guts to do our phone-in. They were right.

All credit to her. She’s the first prime minister since Tony Blair to do one phone-in outside an election period. They always carry a slight risk for a politician.

Iain Dale: Rennard, Lord of the Lib Dem campaign machine

Plus: Nigel Farage steps into my shoes; life after gangs; and the absurd Remainer response to the Government’s Brexit papers.

Iain Dale: Dear Cabinet Ministers – if you must fight one another, do it in private

Plus: I’m beating James O’Brien; Labour’s telling silence on Venezuela; and saying farewell to a friend.

Iain Dale: The biggest gossip in politics is interviewed by the biggest gossip in politics and names the biggest gossip in politics

Plus: The decline of books. Morgan sees off the cult of Mogg. Why I won’t fly RyanAir. And: As I reach a significant birthday, I mull writing my autobiography…

Iain Dale: How I did not become May’s new Director of Communications

Guido Fawkes, Tom Newton-Dunn and the Evening Standard diary banded together to suggest that I was about to do a far, far better thing than I have ever done…

Iain Dale: No, Corbyn hasn’t pulled off a triumph. A defeat is a defeat is a defeat.

Plus: An apology on behalf of the pundits, the press, the pollsters, the politicians and the parties for calling this election utterly, totally and completely wrong.

Iain Dale: Rudd to the Treasury, a Gove comeback, McLoughlin to quit. What may happen in the reshuffle.

Oh, and Timothy and Hill should be moved on from being co-Chiefs of Staff – the former to head up policy, the latter press.

No, this is not “the most controlled election campaign ever”. But it is, perhaps, the most dull.

None the less, campaigns are not devised for the entertainment of journalists and websites. They are crafted to win votes. Which this one seems to be doing.

Iain Dale: There’s only so far that Labour can fall in the polls. I think we’ve reached that point now.

Plus: May needs Johnson. My election predictions. Strange selection decisions. And: why I decided not to put my name forward for the seat in which I grew up.

Iain Dale: My election prediction. May will be back in Downing Street with a Commons majority of 74 seats.

Plus: Where I was when the poll was announced. What I will be doing during the campaign. And: the temptation to seek to stand as a candidate tugs at my sleeve…

Iain Dale: Fox was right. Most European countries need to bury their twentieth century history.

Plus: Hammond’s blunder. Peers’ folly. Stephen Hawking is not, repeat not, controlled by MI5. And: my inner Mary Whitehouse meets Katie Hopkins’ slack vagina.