So Alan Milburn is drafted back into the Cabinet as Chancellor – sorry, Chancellor of the Duchy as Lancaster – after Blair gave up trying to drop Ian McCartney as party chairman.

Does this mean my taxes are now paying Cabinet level salaries for two party operatives? Or do these posts not cost taxpayers money? I don’t know the answer, but there is something distinctly wrong if we’re paying for Labour to employ a General Election co-ordinator.

Meanwhile, Michael Howard has also shuffled his front bench team. He seems to have given up on his supposedly radical idea of a small shadow cabinet from a few months back, although it’s not entirely clear why since the shadow cabinet doesn’t actually run anything. I wonder who the new Shadow Minister for Deregulation is actually shadowing; the same applies to Teresa May in her role as Shadow Minister for the Family.

Is he just inventing jobs for the sake of it? It’s a somewhat ham-fisted attempt to brand posts with a certain message. What next: Michael Ancram as Shadow Secretary of State for Looking Down Our Noses at Foreigners? David Davis to become Shadow Minister for Hanging and Flogging?

Thanks to Popbitch, I have learnt that from next Monday, Five will be repeating Sunset Beach.

And, lo, there was dancing in the streets.

If you missed it on ITV2 or on Channel 5, don’t miss it this time. Watch the saga unfold!

Simon Hughes has been elected the next President of the Liberal Democrats, taking around 70% of the vote against fellow MP Lembit &Oumlpik.

I was backing Simon (although I’m sure Lembit would have done a creditable job) and look forward to his taking the party forward over the next two years under Charles’s leadership. Well done, Simon!

Back at work today and I find that my blog didn’t receive the last e-mail I sent it to post. Never mind – it only said that I was very busy, had seen nine shows in Edinburgh and name-dropped the MP I was delivering with in Hartlepool.

It also noted that reviews of the Edinburgh shows I saw would follow, which is still the case.