Nish Kumar

The reason that I'm in Australia holidaying is because I was actually working last week in New Zealand.

I was filming a small part in a sitcom that I'm very excited about.

I think it's going to be a really funny show.

And most crucially, my hair was blow-dried straight.

We can all look forward.

Oh my God!

to that visual later in the year.

Between now and the hair straightening, we've got very exciting things coming up.

Most notably this week, we are joined once again by our great friend Ash Larker from Navarra Media, who is going to discuss with us the impact of Peter Mandelson's arrest, the by-election and a stream of endless bloody inquiries and investigations.

First up, Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Bizarrely, his lawyers then claimed that the arrest had only happened because the police wrongly believed that he was going to flee the country.

Mandelson has always denied any wrongdoing.

And we have to mention, because our lawyers have told us we have to, we have to mention that arrest is not a charge and we are still very far from any possible court case.

No, not really, because this is... Ash, let he who is without sin, let he who has not hired a man who many people warned him was a close affiliate of an international sex offender cast the first time.

There's also another problem because it's not just the police investigation that's going on.

That could take several months.

But Keir Starmer also has to release the number 10 files which discuss the vetting process.

I don't know what you guys think.

That feels like, I know this sounds like a strange thing to say, that could almost be more damaging because then we'll have the internal machinations of what Keir Starmer and the people around him knew about Mandels.

Like this is, no one wants their DMs released.