The disturbing sight of George Galloway pretending to be a cat in the Celebrity Big Brother house will live long in the memories of anyone who has seen it repeatedly on the rolling news channels this morning or on last night's show. Which should have given you plenty of time to dream up a suitable caption for our forthcoming News blog caption competition.
In other "politicians do the funniest things" news, a party activist will be blogging about Lembit Opik's stint on Who Wants to be a Millionaire: meanwhile, the former Guardian journalist Chris Huhne is expected to step forward as a fourth candidate for the Lib Dem leadership this morning.
We'll also have world dispatches from Dan Glaister on the row on intelligent design reaching California and from Ian Black on Nato's crisis of confidence over the Nato deployment. Here on News blog, blogger and journalist Laila el-Haddad should be bringing us the first instalment of a series of blogposts on the upcoming Palestinian elections.
And as the investigation begins into the stampede that left more than 300 hajj pilgrims dead yesterday, it has emerged that a Briton is among the victims. We'll also be covering the latest brinkmanship in discussions over Iran's nuclear programme, as the French foreign ministry says talk of sanctions against the country were "premature".
