Reshuffle Roundup

Newsnight could find nothing about it worth mentioning. Not a word was given to the whole thing. That was quite understandable.

But pity poor Sajid Javid. As a member of this Government as of the Conservative Party, everyone will just assume that, far from being the son of  bus driver, he is the Maharajah of Jaipur. Nothing will convince them otherwise.

Now that Norman Baker is a Home Office Minister, it is very high time indeed for a Coroner's Inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. Now that Norman Baker is a Home Office Minister, there might very well be a Coroner's Inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly.

Making it just as well that the remaining Blairites have been or are being managed out. But that would have happened anyway, generationally.

At the 2015 Election, people will have the vote who were born on the day of the 1997 Election. To them, "Were you still up for Portillo?" is a weekly question about This Week with Andrew Neil. Stephen Twigg could not have expected still to have been dining out on it, a generation later.

The departure of Liam Byrne is splendid news for opponents of the Coalition's victimisation and viciousness, to which his only objection was that it did not go far enough. 

And while it is appalling to read even supposedly left-wing commentators who regard a move to International Development is a demotion, Jim Murphy is obviously on the way down, and thank heavens for that.

With him gone from Defence, Labour can now start to talk about the overwhelming public view on Trident.