FORMER Oxford West & Abingdon MP Dr Evan Harris is always quick to put forward arguments on important issues on Twitter rather than meaningless drivel, but he got rather lost on the moral high ground over the Ryan Giggs furore.

He has been pontificating about injunctions and labelling the controversy part of a tabloid campaign to invade people’s privacy.

A fair point to make and some people will agree.

But just what did he tweet soon after fellow Liberal Democrat John Hemming named footballer Giggs in Parliament as being at the centre of the twitter controversy?

“I think J Hemming was wrong to use parl privilege to name #Giggs...”

While the name was out, surely holding the moral high ground on privacy against those beastly tabloids could mean giving an opinion without repeating Mr Giggs’s name?

And for the uninitiated, putting the # before Giggs made it easier for other people to find the tweet, therefore breaching the poor footballer’s shredded privacy even further.

#bitofanowngoalthereevan...

STILL, at least we know his opinion, unlike his successor as the constituency’s MP, Conservative Nicola Blackwood.

Not really surprising, as we’ve been waiting for any proper comment from Miss Blackwood about the disappointing outcome of the compensation deal for Equitable Life investors.

She was very vocal about her role when it appeared a good settlement was being sorted out by the Government – but now the picture is less rosy.

Miss Blackwood obviously thinks she’s picking up the tricks of the Westminster trade.

Of course, if she feels this is unfair, we’re happy to conduct a proper interview.

I’ll happily report the result next week.

Charismatic city councillor Colin Cook is set to head up the aisle later this year. And he chose a romantic spot for the proposal to wife-to-be Helen, on the historic Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.

But it was not the first time the location had witnessed a momentous event.

It was the very same spot where the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was shot in 1914, an event that sparked the First World War.

Not an omen for the marriage, we hope.

Stephen Brown, the Liberal Democrat group leader on Oxford City Council, turned TV critic this week.

He praised outgoing Lord Mayor John Goddard for championing live online broadcasts of full council meetings.

Then added: “Why on earth you would want to sit in front of your computer and watch full council, that goes on for five hours or more, beggars belief.”

A quote the council is unlikely to use on promotional posters or any forthcoming DVD release of its always riveting proceedings.