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I watched the train wreck that was Gordon Brown being 'interviewed' by Mariella Frostrup. Quentin Letts' take is bang on: During a 90-minute 'informal question and answer' session Mr Brown proceeded to have an extended David Davis moment.
Miss Frostrup said she had been to a Labour conference once before but could not remember it, apparently because she drank too much.
She was effectively saying, 'I'm a Labour trouper, always have been'.
As with Sandi Toksvig at last week's Lib Dem conference, there may be matters of political allegiance here that the BBC Trust will want to discuss.
Questions from the floor proved unreliable (i.e. mad), so some filmed clips were used instead.
Long silences occurred when nothing happened save Mr Brown scribbling on paper.
The hall fell into a stupor. A man in row five dozed. A woman in a motorised wheelchair feathered the hand throttle of her chariot, eager to gun it for the exits. The silences were indeed truly extraordinary.On and on they went. At least Bruckner's silences have a meaning, and flow from the music. These were just...silent. Cringe-making. The sort where you look around, wondering what's going on.