Joy of joys: Mark Oaten has found a new medium via which to expose himself to the world. Advance notice, then, that he will be appearing on the show I was on last night, Vox Politix, next Monday on internet “Talk TV” station 18 Doughty Street. Iain Dale will, as always, be inviting questions from the interweb – and if that isn’t tempting fate, I don’t know what is.

Come on, Winchester residents – find him some casework to fill his time.

This evening, I’ll be following in the footsteps of fellow LibDem bloggers Stephen Tall and Andy Mayer by keeping our end up on Iain Dale‘s Vox Politix discussion show on internet telly station 18 Doughty Street. Subjects up for debate include whether MPs are increasingly toeing the party line and the new climate change report by Sir Nicholas Stern.

The programme is 9pm-10pm and should be available to watch afterwards if you’re engrossed in Spooks at the time. Do watch live if you’re free though – either way, logging on to www.18doughtystreet.com is the way in.

Wednesday night is family history night, so I’m currently watching Who Do You Think You Are?, featuring Jeremy Irons. They’ve just shown the marriage certificate of his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Irons. He was a Chartist, and prior to that was a London policeman living at 10 Cowley Street, Westminster – a few doors away from the building (or the site at least) that became the SDP headquarters and currently home to the Liberal Democrats.

Thomas Irons was subsequently arrested in connection with a planned insurrection and ended up with an 18 month sentence in prison.

The EU has chosen a logo (right) to celebrate its 50th birthday next year. It was designed by Polish student Szymon Skrzypczak who entered it into the EU’s competition.

The licensing rules preclude me from editing the image, so I’ll have to explain the change I would make: swap the “E” with the “é”. It might be different in other languages, but in French “é” is pronounced “eh” rather than “uh” – in other words, more like the second syllable in “Together” than the third.

Pedantic, moi?