A day of media training. The training is by a top company for the new members of the London Assembly, but I have been offered a place that is going spare. I am trying to work out whether I have been offered it because I am Chair of Transport and therefore do quite a lot of media – or I am just so bad they think I need all the help I can get.

TV, particularly live TV is fairly tough and you never do it often enough for it to become second nature or to relax – so I am grateful for the extra help.

I usually think of the most brilliant come back – but sadly only sometime after I have done the interview and left the studio. Perhaps I could do a book – brilliant soundbites I never delivered.

Anyway – the training was for print, radio and various TV situations. All good stuff. What I did realise, as they made you watch the videos they take of the TV interviews with feedback, is that after the first term of office I have improved more than I thought. However, it was quite clear that I needed a haircut, to dress more smartly and to keep my answers short.