Excellent post. I've noted his recent anoitment as king of "the Tories who were't that bad really and now podcast and tell us all fun stories from behind the scenes". My sister in law is always mentioning "I'll have to listen to Rory about it" on the rare occasions I see her and we drift on to some political topic.

All it took was one supposed "tell all" book and lots of promotion from friendly media and a regular podcast; "The Rest is Politics" with Alastair Campbell seems to have been given the accolade as the alternative news programme that it's acceptable to watch when of course it's just Newsnight with lower production values and fewer leopard skin boots.

Very useful to have all that listed in one place; thanks for digging it up and posting.