The G20 circus is about to begin but the politicians will talk to each other face to face for only four hours and 35 minutes, so it is £4 million an hour? Is it worth it?
And MPs expenses are back in the firing line with the disclosure that the Home Secretary’s husband has claimed for two X-rated movies on his wife’s expenses…which we pay for. Also, the left wing Labour MP Harry Cohen has claimed £300,000 second home allowance on his home… in his constituency.
A new play opens at the Shaw Theatre next week, Maggie’s End, which revels in the death of the former Prime Minister. I’ve written the foreword for the programme arguing for a State funeral for our first woman PM. Kevin Maguire, from the Daily Mirror, has written a foreword, predictably taking the opposite view.
And Derek Draper, the former Labour spin doctor, came in to talk G20, why we should abolish the monarchy – outrageous!!! – MPs expenses, Thatcher, and to promote his new book Life Support all about psychotherapy. And I never even mentioned that his wife is Kate Garraway but do go to his new labour web site Labourlist.org.