David Cameron's Paul Smith Suit

I can exclusively reveal that David Cameron was wearing a Paul Smith suit at the News International reception on Monday night. I can exclusively reveal this because I asked him and, being good sport that he is, he told me. I had expected it to be Richard James, not because I know much about these things, but because everybody keeps talking about Richard James suits. Defensively, Bikin' Dave told me he did have a suit by Timothy Everest which cost 'an arm and a leg'. The suit, it is has struck me many times recently, is in a state of turmoil. At events over the past year or so I have seen Charlie Sheen, Joaquin Phoenix and Prince Charles in suits so awful that I was lost for words. Charles's lightweight number was especially dreadful, apparently made of soft tinfoil painted with dark, irridescent lines. It looked like a hallucination. How his tailor must have laughed. Anyway, I'm seeing Richard James tomorrow so I shall bring up the matter of the great Suit Crisis. A lot of other things happened at the News Int do, of course, but, well, you know......