Fighting for her political life after the latest U-turn on disability benefit cuts, Rachel Reeves has now lost her most important Whitehall cheerleader.
The Chancellor's high-flying civil servant husband, Nicholas Joicey, was the senior mandarin at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. But I can reveal he has quietly left his £170,000-a-year post.
Joicey has taken a job at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government as Interim Chief Operating Officer. I hear he got out because of a conflict of interest, with deep spending cuts demanded across Whitehall by his wife.
Some insist it shows Reeves is at the Treasury for the long haul - greater love hath no mandarin than to lay down a top post for the sake of his wife's career.
But that won't be enough to save Reeves' skin. As Joicey is only interim COO at Oxford on a '12-month secondment', he could yet waltz straight back to Whitehall if, as widely expected, his wife is kicked out of the Cabinet within the year.
When Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle decides to stand down, a favourite to succeed him is Dame Meg Hillier, chairman of the Commons Treasury select committee. At least that was before she was revealed to be the behind the Labour revolt on disability benefit cuts.
Professional dancer-turned-judge Anton Du Beke is asked if he listens to rumours about which celebrities will be taking part in Strictly Come Dancing each year: 'I don't. Once upon a time the lovely Superman actress Teri Hatcher was supposed to be doing Strictly, with me. I ended up with Ann Widdecombe.'
It worked a treat for Donald Trump on the election trail and now Tory MP and Business spokesman Andrew Griffith has tried his hand working at McDonald's. Like Trump, he delivered orders at the drive-through window. The Arundel and South Downs MP said: 'It's an intense environment to deliver for their customers and Westminster could learn a lot about teamwork from McDonald's colleagues.'
'Everyone is welcome here,' beamed Glasto organiser Emily Eavis, defending her decision to book controversial rap group Kneecap. Everyone? Except the thousands priced out by a £378.50 ticket - and the 7.8km fence that keeps out the great unwashed.
Alastair Campbell raged on X after giving an interview for a Nigel Farage documentary: 'Just had an email to say... the sound didn't work!' One viewer replied: 'Good to know they used the correct technical settings for your interview.'
It's an own goal for busy Kim
Labour's Kim Leadbeater might have hoped for a breather after her Assisted Dying Bill scraped through the Commons.
But as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, Leadbeater's office sent an email to Labour MPs suggesting topics to bring up at ministerial questions. They included hard-hitting queries like: 'What steps is her Department taking to support the delivery of major sporting events?'
Unfortunately, they were sent to a bunch of Tory MPs, too.
Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler says he hides in his studio to escape the doorbell's constant rings. 'All those Amazon deliveries,' he harrumphs.
Perhaps he missed out on an invitation to Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' Venice wedding.