David Cameron invoked the spirit of JFK to ask 'what you can do for your country', the Thick Of It creator is starting a police force.
Yesterday, political journalists were having fun with the Tories' invitation to join their government, asking for diplomatic postings to Caribbean islands and suchlike. (No word yet on whether my formerly very private wish to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will be granted.)
Today it is the turn of the comedians: Jeremy Hardy has taken out his own appendix and Armando Iannucci is taking up the Tories' offer to run local public services with an attempt to organise his own police force for Wigan – a #twitterforce.
We will keep you updated with any developments in Iannucci's bottom-up power-to-the-people crime-fighting initiative.
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