But why didn’t Grant Shapps mention that he’s a keen karaoke rapper?

What’s wrong with editing your own Wikipedia entry, anyway? I’ve never touched mine, but only because I’m scared people would find out, which would be bad, although for reasons which elude me. I don’t even know why I’ve got a Wikipedia entry, actually. It was built in 2005, at 1.12a.m., by somebody who appears to have been at Birmingham University. Since then, it has been a lurking presence in my online life, like some chick you’ve never met who goes around telling people she’s your girlfriend.

This past week, Grant Shapps, the new co-chairman of the Conservative party, has been ridiculed in numerous papers for editing his. There wasn’t anything ¬≠particularly bad in there beforehand. It didn’t mention, for example, the way he’s a keen karaoke rapper (which is definitely true because I’ve seen him at it in a room above a nightclub in Birmingham) or the way he was born with a scaly green tail (which probably isn’t true because I’ve just made it up, although I might add it and see how long it lasts).