I bet Question Time is kicking itself for not taking up the offer of having Tony McNulty on its illustrious panel tonight. He was suggested as a last ditch replacement for the new immigration minister Phil Woolas, who was barred by Home Secretary Jacki Smith for making controversial comments about asylum and immigration.

Up until the recent reshuffle, McNulty was a Home Office minister in charge of security and policing. He would have been well qualified to speak about today’s disturbing revelations that some police forces have been miscounting serious crimes.

Some crimes that should have been classed as "grievous bodily harm with intent" were recorded as lesser crimes. As a result, overall crime and overall violent crime remain down on last year – but the official total of most serious violent crime is up by 22%. This most certainly does not establish public trust.

Labour’s hot seat will be taken by Lord Hattersley who will most likely have to defend their position on this. Iain has reminded us of his hilarious tub of lard episode. Will history repeat itself?

I shall, as always, look forward  to listening to the highly intelligent and articulate Baroness Warsi speak for Conservatives.

And I shall be all ears too for the dashing Editor of the Financial Times, Lionel Barber. He was responsible for the revival of the broadsheet pink paper and led its biggest revamp for a generation, transforming it it to win "newspaper of the year", while attracting increased sales and public appeal. He was most certainly an inspired choice.

And I’m not just saying that because they published one of my stories recently….