Hain't misbehavin'

Welsh secretary Peter Hain prompted some murmering around the room as key speaker at the third ITV Wales annual political awards in Cardiff's plush City Hall.
It was difficult to judge which joke fell the flattest after last year's Welsh Politician of the Year asked the assembled glitterati to judge 'if standards had slipped' in this year's award to Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones.
The speech, probably well-suited to a Welsh Labour or TUC conference, became the topic of late-night conversation.

Mr Hain, to be fair, had started out with some self-deprecation, reminding guests of the Belfast graffiti when he was Northern Ireland Secretary - Peter Insane in Republican areas and Sinn Hain in Loyalist.
But having described programme hosts Jonathan Hill and Mai Davies as the Posh and Becks of Welsh politics, in dead pan manner, he went on to jokingly rubbish some of the winners.
"Ieuan Wyn Jones followed in my footsteps as Welsh Politician of the Year - I'll leave it to you to judge whether standards are slipping or rising."
He didn't want any accusations of undermining the One Wales coalition deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru in the Assembly, especially from the Laurel and Hardy of Welsh politics -Adam Price (Plaid MP) and Martin Shipton (political journalist).
After paying tribute to Mr Jones' 'tremendous determination which is the art of politics', he said the Ynys Mon AM had made a 'meteoric leap to deputy first minister from country solicitor'.
The DFM had just returned from a trade mission to India with a range of favourite curries,he said.
The recipes were for another Plaid award winner, Helen Mary Jones: '...as I seem to remember she is rather partial to a conspiratorial curry." (A reference to the alleged curry plot when Plaid AMs met to discuss replacing Ieuan Wyn Jones as party leader in 2003)
The 'one to watch' award went to Conservative AM Angela Burns, although Mr Hain remarked:"I rather thought her former Conservative colleague Laura Ann Jones was really the one to watch." (Cue stunned silence)
Lib Dem leader of Wrexham council Aled Roberts, local politican of the year, received less severe treatment 'unusually for a Liberal leader he's got staying power', Mr Hain said.
The awards programme was shown on ITV Wales on Thursday, December 13 at 11.35pm.
If you watched closely, you might have seen me present an award as one of the judges.
Mr Hain's speech was judiciously edited for TV.
Other accounts from guests on the night can be found here and here, here, and here.