UPDATE: That is one tough show to be on. It's a lot harder being grilled live than being fed soft questions with the option of a second take if you fluff your lines.

But anyway, I now know that I am miles better looking than Michael Portillo in the flesh. And better dressed.

[pic shamelessly half-inched from Theo Spark]

The main broadcasting outlets are already getting their packages together for when - and it does now seem like when, rather than if - Scotland Yard decide to question Blair on cash for peerages.

As a result, I got to spend 20 minutes doing a piece to camera for ITN at Millbank this afternoon. I'll be lucky if they use 30 seconds of it. But it was a splendid book-whoring opportunity indeed.

Which reminds me. If you are looking for that ideal last minute stocking-filler for that Blairite relative you don't really like, look no further than my 2002 classic Labour Party plc, available on Amazon or from a bookstore near you.

But what really pleased me was being told that the package may also feature 1970s glam rock idol Alvin Stardust, pictured above, currently starring as The Childcatcher in the Liverpool Empire production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The link here is that Stardust was famously a protege of Lord Levy when he was in the business of flogging 45s to teenyboppers instead of shaking down dodgy businessmen to fund New Labour.

As an avid viewer of Top of the Pops during Stardust's heyday, I can't wait for the broadcast. Altogether now ...

'Tom ... Cat! Y'know where it's at!
Come on, let's go to my flat
Lay down and groove on the mat
A-you can be my coo ca choo.'

Readers in Wales will be able to hear me discuss the political prospects for Tony Blair on the BBC Radio Wales show 'Good Morning Wales’ jat ust after 8.00 am tomorrow morning. The other guest will be Lord Anderson of Swansea, previously known as Donald Anderson, Labour MP for Swansea East. If it becomes available online, I’ll post a link.

Incidentally, anybody got any opinions on the online television phenomenon? Is it a fad or is it the future? And why doesn't the left - with perhaps the honourable exception of the Socialist Party, which has dabbled with webcam clips on its website - take more interest in the idea?

Tonight I will be a guest on the Vox Politix online television show, broadcast on 18 Doughty Street between ten and midnight. Also on the panel will be Sean Fear from PoliticalBetting.com, the mainstream Labour blogger Jon Worth, and former Paddy Ashdown spin doctor Jo Phillips.

Topics up for discussion include the decline in the number of council candidates and the decision to allow the Navy 15 to sell their stories. Any killer 'lines to take' or blinding Marxist aperçus on topical issues in the comments box, please.

I'll be appearing on the internet television show Vox Politix at www.18doughtystreet.com between 10pm and midnight tonight. Other guests will be Phillip Lee, the GP and Westminster hopeful who secured a deposit-losing 816 votes for the Tories in Blaenau Gwent at the last general election; Labour activist Mark Hanson; and Boni Sones, author of 'Women in Parliament'. Host, as ever, will be Iain Dale.

Newsnight tonight will see Jeremy Paxman cross-examine all six candidates for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party. Hilary Benn, Hazel Blears, Jon Cruddas, Peter Hain, Harriet Harman and Alan Johnson will take part in the first televised hustings of the contest.

Or … you could watch me on 18 Doughty Street between 10pm and midnight instead. I’m on with David Canzini, the Tories’ director of campaigning, and Lib-Dem internet guru Mark Pack. Decisions, decisions.

I'm doing the Blogger TV slot on 18 Doughty Street at 9pm tonight, with other guests including Helen Szamuely, a strident advocated of pronounced rightwing views:

Unlike many Western intellectuals who seemingly always find parts of socialist or communist systems commendable, Dr Helen Szamuely has no such illusions. Born in the Soviet Union, Helen attended school in Hungary, Ghana and Britain. Her childhood and geographically-varied education provided her with the frame of reference that many of her peers lack. The result: a passionate commitment to liberty that truly sets her perspective and writing apart from others who have similar credentials but little real-life experience with the results of totalitarianism.

Sometimes it can be more constructive to debate the intelligent free market right than the braindead left. And sometimes it can generate more heat than light. We shall see. Watch the show live, or catch up with the webcast sometime during the week.

Also appearing is London School of Economics media studies academic Charlie Beckett, who may do well to consider the hire of a flak jacket.

I'm set to do a prerecord for the BBC Scotland radio programme Scotland at Ten later today, discussing the impending bankruptcy of the Labour Party. Financial as opposed to political, of course. In case you couldn’t guess from the name, it should be on air at 10pm.

Among the points I’ll be making is that Labour came close to going bust in early 1990s, that the unions are unlikely to let New Labour go under, and that the next few months will show whether the businessmen that ten years ago were ready to write seven figure cheques really were really convinced democratic socialists or simply wanted to be able to advertise cigarettes on their racing cars.

Meanwhile, if any readers have inside information/killer facts/specifically Scottish angles/suggested lines to take, please let me know through the comments box.