Policywonk, in a smart coat, LIVE FROM WESTMINSTER

[policywonk]

Hello and welcome

I've got my dongle working! Woohoo!

Today is a briefing day organised by the G20 Voice peeps.

Am networking like a wild thing. Oh look, there's Michelle O. 'Scuse me.

same thing happens v regularly threadie though. (horrid about manhandling arse though)

I'm off to bed. Do we think PW is pulling chest-hair of sexy Oxfam man?

RBS is majority owned by the taxpayer.

Yes bed for me too.

I hope PW is having a good time.

Lenin, you're having the tipsy tete a tete with the lovely Vikki?

it's just so .. dumb.

Interesting that they belong to the same testosterone-addled age-group as the risk-unaverse city boys whom the banks foolishly entrusted with their futures.

There's a reason that car insurance for the unde 30s is so bloody high, you know.

Anyone still here?

Am back at hotel, stone-cold sober and jittery.

You want me to talk to the Chinese blogger, eh?

Policywonk - Hello

How much will I be charged for one tube of decaff coffee and two custard creams?

Why jittery and why stone cold sober?

I'm still here, adoring Charlie Brooker in the background.

Lenin, I think we toned the leching down, didn't we? We've got all multi-syllabic in the past few posts...

Hello dear

Sorry I didn't get back to you on the capitalism thing but I see you've been having a jolly improving discussion about it. (But I did say 'prioritise', not 'address', you naughty thing.)

And how about Surf's Up on the premium channel before bed?

Sober 'cos I thought it best really (have to be up at 5.45 tomorrow). Jittery because... over-excited and over-tired.

Haven't seen any telly at all for days. Can someone tell me what's happening?

PW, I hope sleep happens, I should think you're quite wired. I should go off to bed, too - I'm hobnobbing with big minds tomorrow too, and they need me to explain grammar... maybe it'll be the same for you

Why do you have to be up at 5.45am?

5.45: cursed alarm will go off
6.30: inspection in the hotel lobby
6.45 - 10: getting through security (really)
10 - 3.30: organised chaos, no idea yet whenwhatwhere
3.30 - 4.30: final communique released
4.30 - 5.30: tap tap tap
5.30: hit the bar

Well PW I've been reading the news today and it's the usual exageration of protester violence in the city despite largely peaceful protest.

N. Sarkosy threatening to walk out if things don't go his way already.

Obama saying it'll all be fine.

Brown saying, 'Yes Barack. No Barack. Three bags full Barack'. Or am I being overly cynical.

You look fab on the home page btw.

Goodnight Kay. And can I just say, given recent events, that yours is exactly that sort of neighbourhood.