DEPUTY Lord Mayor of Oxford and Liberal Democrat blogger Stephen Tall claims to have proved Murphy's Law on his website oxfordliberal. blogspot.com Posted on Tuesday was a picture taken from his office window at St Anne's College, showing a glorious sunny vista across the city.

Posted the day before - Bank Holiday Monday - was a picture taken from his flat window, showing a damp and dreary James Street.

Sod's Law, he cries.

And he's right, of course - but look closely at the picture taken from his flat window and you'll see a wheelie bin squeezed into the tiny outdoor area.

Is he trying to quieten those who claim they haven't got room for one via subliminal messaging? If so, that's very clever.

A FEW weeks ago we humbly suggested we didn't think it would be long before Peter Tatchell, the colourful Green Party candidate for Oxford East, lit up the dreary campaign trail.

We predicted fireworks from the man who not once, but twice tried to perform a citizen's arrest on Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe.

And so it has proved.

Mr Tatchell was beaten up during a Gay Pride rally at the weekend in Moscow - hardly the venue of choice for tolerant and peaceful protest.

He claimed he was thumped by people he believed were right-wing neo-Nazi extremists and said the city's riot police stood by while he was attacked.

To add insult to injury, he was later arrested.

He said: "There's no rule of law in Moscow - the right to protest does not exist.

"We were defending the right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest for all Russians, gay and straight."

GOOD on Graham Brady for being at least one Conservative MP with an ounce of decency and resigning his front bench job over David Cameron's U-turn on selective education.

Under the Witney MP, the Tories have dropped their policy of a grammar school for every town, claiming they "impede social mobility" - despite hardly any of the shadow Cabinet having been educated by the state.

The irony of the whole debacle is that Mr Cameron was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford.

WANTAGE MP Ed Vaizey's promotion to shadow arts minister has got him into some unlikely places - the Ivor Novello Awards, for one.

He clearly enjoyed the event - check out the name-dropping here.

On his website, Mr Vaizey said: "Musicians take them very seriously - even Alex from the Arctic Monkeys was on best behaviour and seemed awed to receive one.

"Quincy Jones and Norman Cook both got standing ovations and Elton John gave the best speech - 'Alex (Arctic Monkeys), I'm going up to Sheffield by helicopter after this, I'll give you a lift'. I also had the privilege of sitting next to Fergal (sic) Sharkey."