Great night last night at the Public Affairs News awards - and a bit of a slow start this morning!

Congratulations to Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor) on winning the Politician of the Year award, although sadly he wasn't there to receive it. And a special mention for Jeremy Wright, MP for Rugby and Kenilworth, who was one of the other nominees. He was nominated by the Alzheimer's Society for the great work he does for them. At a time when MPs are getting a lot of flak for "snouts in the trough", let's remember that many of them work hard not just for their constituents, but on behalf of all sorts of worthy causes which wouldn't get the public support and awareness that they do without public figures campaigning hard on their behalf. Credit where credit's due I say.