Actress Emily Blunt does not want to play Kate Middleton "One guy said it was about lighting the fire in your third eye, which I enjoyed because it gave it a Buddhist slant," he says. But, actually, it was just about sex. Politics is a joke for Tim Vine Known for his witty one-liners, Tim Vine is considering ditching the stage for the political podium. "I've always wanted to get into politics," says the brother of the Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine. It's something I want to save for when I'm a bit older, possibly when I retire from comedy, but I've always wanted to be a mayor. Vine, who appears in the BBC sitcom Not Going Out adds: "I'm not talking about being the mayor of London - Boris Johnson would be too funny, too formidable - but I can definitely see myself as the mayor of Sutton, in Surrey, near where I live." Paper tiger I recall the late Malcolm Muggeridge telling me how he couldn't stomach the hypocrisy of The Guardian, which he lambasted in his book, The Picture Palace. "Saint Mugg," were he alive today, would find his old paper all too familiar. It gave Ricky Gervais both barrels this week for making fun of people with disabilities in his new series Derek, which begins on Wednesday night on Channel 4. It objected, in particular, to the way Gervais "fed bigots their lines" by his use of abusive and insulting words such as "mong." Tellingly, there was no mention of the word "cretin." I have still to hear back from the paper about what, if anything, it intends to do about one of its own writers who used that word to describe me.