PMQs and you can tell that Tony B is becoming demob happy. Wiped the floor with Cameron and was snappy and sharp in all responses. Big grin on his face and a class act. Shame that Brown boy is going to seem oh so dulllllll by comparison. And I don’t even approve of PMQs as a grown up pastime!

Over to the mass lobby by Help the Aged for their Just Equal Treatment campaign. And three cheers for them. Fantastic turn out from Haringey – maybe as many as 50 – so took me ages to get the list of each of their own personal experiences of discrimination against the elderly – but it was really valuable getting real stories from real people about how the legislation we talk about and vote on in Parliament really impacts on people at the coal face. (You can see some photos over on my Flickr account).

On the list of issues raised (which is very long) were: can’t get travel insurance easily over age 70 (if at all) and the prices shoot up astronomically; get fobbed off with cheaper and inferior quality generic drugs; the Council Tax (well, the Liberal Democrats would scrap it); incentives to work beyond retirement age (i.e. not earning less by working than would on pension); when health cuts are made they so often target the old peoples’ services (true – chiropody etc) and much much more. So many questions to follow up on – and speaking as someone who wants to be an old person (it’s pretty good option given the alternative!) I declare an interest.