There are three men in the centre of developing stories today.  If we're meant to be in the silly season, then someone should tell Max Mosely, Barak Obama or Gordon Brown - none of whom are allowing the newspapers to get distracted by the trivial traditional summer fayre.

The ramifications from Mosely's High Court case, Obama's Berlin speech and Brown's electoral loss are barely yet being played out in the papers. These are stories that will continue to play out next week and beyond.

For the sake of brevity though here are a few of the immediate reactions to the Glasgow result:

• Graham Stringer MP wants Brown to go ('Labour MP calls for Brown to quit after by-election humiliation')
• Tony Woodley wants the Blairites to go ('Expel the Blairites now')
• Martin Kettle suggests the whole government is set to go ('Glasgow East, it doesn't get worse than this')
• Iain Macwhirter thinks the Union is in danger of going ('Earthquake in Glasgow East')
  
• Philip Johnston says if anyone's going to go - they need to do it quickly ('How bad was Glasgow East defeat')

Conservative and Liberal Democrat party members will look at the predicament that Labour MP's find themselves in with a knowing smile.  Both opposition parties have in recent years prevaricated whilst the writing on the wall suggested that all was over for the leader of the day.  And, because neither had suitable leaders-in-waiting poised to take over, and few beleived that changing leader would stop the rot, the fatally wounded leaders were allowed to limp on beyond their sell by date. Indeed the Conservative party have spent most of the last decade in such a predicament - including this time last year when Cameron finished the parliamentary term looking washed up.

The current Labour leadership might take comfort from that - but if the legacy of Major, Hague, Howard, Duncan-Smith, Kennedy and Campbell shows anything it is that Cameron has been the exception rather than the rule in being able to turn things around.