Political TV fans (and No Geek Is An Island fans, of course) will be delighted to hear that I’m returning to internet TV station 18 Doughty Street tonight, along with fellow LibDem blogger Andy Mayer.

We’ll be on air from 9pm. If you can’t tune in tonight, you should be able to watch all three shows we’re doing on the 18 Doguhty Street website from tomorrow.

Visiting South Kensington this afternoon, I was puzzled to see people queuing around the block. The line went on so far I couldn’t see where it ended, or, therefore, the reason for it.

On my way back, I noticed the French flag hanging from a building near the back of the queue and realised the people were French voters waiting to cast their votes at the embassy for the French presidential election. This was confirmed by a Frenchman overheard commenting, “If the queue is that long, I won’t bother voting.”

And here they are:

One of the pleasures of working in Westminster, for a politico-geek, is seeing our parliamentarians out and about in almost a natural habitat – collecting their dry cleaning, being interviewed on College Green, or just marching purposefully towards an important meeting.

Our office is close to John Reid’s London pied-à-terre, but it was only a couple of days ago, as I headed towards the office carrying a guily bacon roll, that I first saw him close up as he passed in the opposite direction, mobile phone clutched to his ear.

He seemed calm and relaxed, which must mean that everything is going swimmingly at the Home Office. Remember him proudly announcing that he would work 18 hours a day to sort of the foreign prisoners farce? I guess that must be all sorted now. Hang on, Home Office Watch will know:

Remember the foreign offences scandal? 27,500 files, detailing serious offences committed by British citizens abroad, were “lost” in the Home Office. Tackling that backlog and getting the offences noted on the Police National Computer was clearly the top priority. Such a high priority in fact that John Reid promised it would be completed in three months. His statement is here.

Three months was up, well, ages ago quite frankly, but not a peep from Dr Reid. Could they have missed a deadline? The Home Office? Surely not.

The Government not crowing about an achievement? Doesn’t seem the most obvious explanation…

To the New Ambassadors Theatre last night to see Whipping It Up, a comedy about Conservative Party whips written by Steve Thompson.

The play was pretty funny – the first half slightly more so than the second – with a few jokes that had we Lib Dems in the back row laughing particularly knowingly at. Robert Bathurst (from Steven Moffat‘s Joking Apart) and Richard Wilson (from Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who and the Empty Child) deservedly took top billing in the cast of six. I noticed that the role of the junior whip – played by an understudy – was usually played by Lee Ross, from EastEnders, The Catherine Tate Show and Steven Moffat’s Press Gang.

The play is set a few months into a Cameron government with a small majority, and I’d recommend it, especially to politicos.