The Gaga embargo

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The Gaga embargo - The Director of Public Prosecutions’ principal legal adviser, Alison Levitt QC, announces charges against former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, husband Charlie, and four others for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. In private life, chiselled-cheeked Alison, 48, is Lady Carlile. She eloped with Lib Dem peer Baron Carlile of Berriew, 63, in 2007, after a five-month affair. The News of the World – former editor: Rebekah Brooks – quoted the poignant response of Carlile’s then wife, Frances: ‘He was bored with me.’

Panties and a bra: Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga, 26, pictured, is refused a work permit to perform in Jakarta, Indonesia, after objections from, inter alia, the Islamic Defenders Front, which says: ‘She’s a vulgar singer who wears only panties and a bra when she sings and she stated she is the envoy of the devil’s child and that she will spread satanic teaching.’ Bra and pants appearances are demure by the standards of Her Gaganess. A recent New Yorker cartoon had martians alighting from a spaceship and telling cops: ‘Take us to Lady Gaga.’

Described as the Royal Family’s favourite interviewer – he’s chatted on TV to Princes Philip, Charles, William and Andrew as well as Princesses Anne and Eugenie – Alan Titchmarsh says he’ll never get the Queen on screen. ‘The interview with Her Majesty is unlikely, don’t hold your breath. She doesn’t do them, so there is absolutely nil chance.’ The little rascal’s trying to soften up HM!

Labour's National Youth Officer, Callum Munro, who sits on the party’s ruling National Executive Committee, posts a Bullingdon Club-style photo of himself (see picture) on Facebook. A source says: ‘He bores comrades daily by boasting in a thick Glaswegian accent that he’ll become Prime Minister.’ Just when Ed Miliband’s personal poll ratings were rising!

Man of the people? Labour's National Youth Officer Callum Munro and chums

Tory MP for Bedford Richard Fuller seeks a Commons debate paying tribute to the late hairdresser, Vidal Sassoon, but Leader of the House of Commons, Sir George Young, rejects the idea, adding: ‘I am afraid I do not require very much time in the hairdresser’s chair to have my hair dealt with.’ It’s not all about you, baldy!

The Advertising Standards Authority has launched an inquiry after ‘homophobia’ complaints were made about an advertisement for the Coalition for Marriage, which says: ‘Same-sex couples may choose to have a civil partnership but no one has the right to redefine marriage for the rest of us.’ What’s so wrong with that? The ASA’s chairman, Lord Smith of Finsbury, 60, the former Labour culture minister, is in a civil partnership with charity executive Dorian Jabri, 49. ( dailymail.co.uk )