There's a mumble in the media jungle about the first election advert by Labour, featuring the Very Reverend and The Munudger as to when they're going to set up home and get married and what their first child would look like.

It didn't quite look like that to me, not quite the 'we have been through so much, we have differences but at heart we love one another', so much as a parody of Alias Smith & Jones. There was an iconic sketch setup in the program where the two faces were very close together and one would say something fairly reasonable, that the other would say something outlandish to and then the return would be even further out on the edge; Smith sweating heavily and Jones beadily sardonic.

Politics as satire on 80's comedy, how post modernist and deconstructivist of the Labour Party. Or how cruel of the director Anthony Minghella, not to indicate The English Patient but perhaps The Talented Mr Ripley.