The dregs and the cream

As I said, BBC Parliament is a gem. Yesterday I left it running with the sound off, so it was there again when I started Firefox again today. Glanced at it once or twice but it was tedious House of Lords stuff. Then later in the afternoon happened to catch the Welsh Affairs debate, with the nauseating David Davies going on and on and on and on, managing to be so insufferably dull that one longed for some of his nastiness. In the end I turned the sound off again and carried on working. When I switched back later I caught Adam Price making what may well be his final speech to the House of Commons (he described it as a valedictory). Utterly assured, full of apt quotations and historical references, vintage Price, but also incredibly gracious to his Labour opposites - Paul Murphy struggling not to be charmed, but Don Touhig simply rolling over to have his tummy scratched. And then the sting in the tail - let's make this a decade of investing in Welsh industry, enterprise and knowledge, and let's conclude it by bringing the World Fair to Britain for the first time in 150 years, and specifically to Wales - and a challenge to Labour, Conservative and Plaid to make it happen. Truly the man is brilliant. Let's hope he makes good use of his time in the US, and returns soon to the role of leadership he was born for.