Digested week: Nicky Morgan's 'surprise' peerage and Christmas drinks at No 10 | John Crace

Downing Street event featured Johnson's attempt to be funny, but with Dom surrounded by hacks it was easy to see where real power lay

Under normal circumstances, it would be considered a huge breach of etiquette to let you know that yet again I have been overlooked in the New Year's honours list before its publication. An astonishing omission, I agree, but there you are. But with the announcement of Nicky Morgan's peerage, I feel that the rules have already been broken and I might as well come clean now. Because exactly when the once and present culture secretary first discovered she was going to be made a baroness is now a matter of some confusion.