Guido Fawkes told us the attack on Murdoch was "bound to fail"

We last saw Guido Fawkes leading journalists astray by dispatching them to a non-existent crisis meeting of Eastleigh Lib Dems. They wandered Hampshire for days like lost souls. I still get isolated reports of one turning up, bearded and skeletal, sleeping rough in a downland village.

So let us have a look at Guido's accuracy in other areas. Here he is, for instance, writing about the phone-hacking scandal in December of last year.

Under the headline They Huffed and Puffed, Coulson Still Standing Guido gave us the benefit of his inside knowledge:

With the news that the CPS won’t prosecute Andy Coulson, on the grounds of lack of admissable evidence, it looks like Coulson will stay in Downing Street as long as he wants, despite whatever the Guardian, New York Times, BBC and Labour will throw at him.

Coulson is as guilty as sin of condoning the News of the World culture, nevertheless it was pretty clear that unless documentary evidence was produced there would be no charges against Coulson. What has been a politically motivated attack by enemies of the Murdoch press was bound to fail without a smoking gun, however much they huffed and puffed.

Given that he was prepared to make an imlicit criticism of the News of the World culture, this makes Guido a better judge than David Cameron, Jenny Jones or Boris Johnson.

But in this case that is not saying much.