The Beeb have announced the panelists for tomorrow’s ’special edition’ of Question Time, which is apparently being co-produced by kids from the four winners of the Schools Question Time Challenge.

The panel starts off promisingly enough with Tony Benn, who’s always good value for your licence fee when he appears and bound to teach the youngster’s a thing or two.

Next up is Lembit Opik, who can be pretty entertaining on his day, especially if you get him on to the subject of killer asteroids. Like Boris he takes a bit of ribbing over his minor eccentricities in good spirit.

Then there’s Justine Greening for the Tories - first thoughts… who?

Turns out she’s one of the new intake - Putney - and seems to be pretty pissed off about aircraft noise from Heathrow but otherwise not much else to report.

Sadly, it them takes a turn for the worse - much worse.

It’s difficult to decide which is the poorer of the two non political guests, Otis Ferry - a candidate for nouveau riche twit of the year if ever there was one - or June Sarpong, a Channel 4 presenter about whom I can honestly say that her talent and charm know no beginning.

Anyone know if it’s possible to programme a TiVO just to record the bits where Tony and Lembit are talking?

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