Win a cardboard cutout of Andrew Marr!

... and a digital radio by entering this competition If you come second you just get the radio, which would probably be better. Not sure what I'd do with a cardboard cutout of Andrew Marr.

I actually saw a politician today!! The first one I've seen in real life since the election campaigning began! (Actually that isn't true, I did see Ken Livingstone walking across Waterloo Bridge the other day. But he wasn't campaigning.) Frank Dobson on the other hand was grinning inanely, wearing an enormous red rosette and parading up and down Chalk Farm Road. I think he was trying to get "down with the kids" as he seemed to be heading for the market. Or maybe he'd run out of kaftans. Beyond all my expectations he even put a leaflet through my door, although it was addressed to somebody else who lived in the block next door.

I quite like Frank Dobson. I am one of those people boring enough to have looked up his voting record, and I agree with it. Which puts me in a bit of a dilemma, as I don't want to vote Labour. My dad has come up with a good reason for voting Labour: Thatcher got in three times. He wants the same to happen to Blair. Not because he's any good, just to redress the balance. I see the point.

Talking of political satire (which I wasn't, but I am now), comedian Mark Thomas (who appeared at Heaven...sorry, the Covent Garden comedy club, held at Heaven but pretending it isn't, on Saturday night) is not a huge Blair fan either. Or a Tory fan. He did however have two good ideas to make sure the fox hunting ban is observed:
1. Those who hunt claim that it is a classless sport. Take them at their word. Get some blinged-up youths from South London Council estates to turn up to a hunt on nicked ponies and see what happens.
2. Give it to the middle classes who will destroy it with bureacracy.

Which made me smile.

We also saw Mitch Benn who is well worth going to see if you have the chance. His set included a song requesting Westlife die, and a Coldplay parody which lamented "Everything sounds like Coldplay now..." He has a point. Oh, and he's a Moz fan. Which helps. Alan Carr and the other bloke were good, but I can't remember his name....