I wonder if Tony Blair will interrupt his holiday to come back for her funeral?

For a day or so anyway the focus on Mo Mowlem will maybe make people a bit more aware of what a very shabby bunch of timeservers and apparatchiks there are crawling around the front benches of Parliament. Even more so than was the case with the death of Robin Cook.

And the thing is, it really doesn't have to be like that.

From an online Book of Condolence for Ian Drury: Only Ian could have had Mo Mowlem standing up in a box yelling "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll"

She was a friend of Lonnie Donegan, and went along to his memorial service back in 32003. I was trying to find the list of reciords she chose in a pretty memorable Desert Island Discs, but the BBC's website for the programme doesn't have it.

Once Mo has had a bit of a rest, I hope she comes back and haunts a few people...