TUESDAY - Supper with Nick Hurd, shadow minister for charities, social enterprise and volunteering. He's refreshingly honest about the challenges facing all of us after the next election, no matter who wins. His message is that we're going to need to get better at measuring and demonstrating the impact of what we do. I resolve to get better at this.
WEDNESDAY - After watching Bruno, the outrageous but hilarious new Sacha Baron Cohen film, I'm on the late train home from London to the suburbs. The well-dressed, middle-aged man opposite me is playing loudly with his PDA. After about 10 minutes, during which time I feel sure that he will realise how intrusive his clicks and beeps are for the rest of the carriage, I lean over and ask him whether he could activate the mute function. He says, rather crossly, that he will, but another five minutes of electronic noises ensue. Once again, I have a friendly word. This time he switches it off, but not before issuing a stream of invective in his plummy middle-class accent. How the carriage would have reacted if this had been a 15-year-old wearing a hoodie listening to their iPod! I shall lobby the government to allow me to issue citizen's Asbos on similar offenders in the future.
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