14 APRIL 2007, Page 12

THURSDAY

Everyone v sheepish since I found out the big secret. Jed tried to explain that politics is all about appearances — or ‘Design’, as he calls it. Sometimes you don’t actually have to do anything. Whatever. I’m shattered after writing a pensions backgrounder. I’m off to the Miliband unit for a quick flick through Cosmo and a lie-down.