In a desperate bid to build bridges with the Conservative rank and file, the PM has emailed party members to protest that he is on their side. Today, the Mail imagines how recipients of his 'personal note' may reply.

Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant Las Vegas pianist, Liberace, won't get a cinema release in the US because Hollywood studios are frightened of offending audiences.

According to reports yesterday, Britain's 650 MPs can soon look forward to a £10,000 pay rise, taking their basic pay to a whopping £75,000 a year, writes DOMINIC SANDBROOK.

Andrew Feldman is the man in the headlines after allegedly describing Tory activists as 'swivel-eyed loons'. But you'd be forgiven for thinking the real swivel-eyed loons are all inside the Westminster Bubble, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.

Either by luck or design, David Cameron hasn't taken one Prime Minister's Questions since April 24. Six weeks will have passed by the time he next takes one on June 5.

JAMES FORSYTH: The Andrew feldman scandal could poison for ever relations between Cameron and his party, sending the Tories into the next Election as a divided force

Try as it might, there is no honourable way for the Tory leadership to draw back from the fact it thinks that grassroots Conservatives are swivel-eyed loons, writes MELISSA KITE.

DAN HODGES: This week, the Conservatives have been working themselves into another Euro frenzy. But this has masked a more significant - and dark - mood that has settled over Ed Miliband and his troops.

TOM UTLEY: Suffice it to say that the menacing young officer pictured in yesterday's paper is hardly the sort of copper I'd feel comfortable asking for the time.

DR MARTIN SCURR: The vocation and the art of medicine has been sacrificed for short-term economic gain, as measured by ticked boxes and statistics.

QUENTIN LETTS: Three memorable Commons performances contrasted with one stinker. The less elevated effort emanated from Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls. Bawls, he should be called.

You may not have heard of Defence Secretary Philip Hammond. However, behind this man's bank-manager-style exterior lies a man of considerable accomplishment, writes SIMON HEFFER.