Full marks to the Daily Mail for raising the question few dare to ask in today's paper: "Is the BBC's Robert Peston too close to Rupert Murdoch's man Will Lewis?". And bonus points for conceding that much of its inside information about the pair was culled from what the Mail referred to as "a gossip column". The piece went on to quote verbatim (well, almost) from a recent Media Monkey item which revealed that "Peston was among the guests at a lavish garden party thrown by PR man Matthew Freud ... [at which] Mr Peston, resplendent in a peach cotton scarf, was huddled together with Rebekah Brooks, his friend Mr Lewis, and their boss James Murdoch for a good part of the evening". We assume our syndication cheque is in the post.