• Few unbreakable rules in politics and journalism, but one is that when Simon Heffer speaks, wise types listen. This is easier on some occasions than others, for the Heff, as familiarity permits us to call him, is teller of unpalatable truths. And so yesterday, when he declared that Tony Blair must be impeached by parliament, it was inevitable that someone would do his bidding. He took us to war on a lie, said the Heff. "Impeachment is the right tool for a former prime minister accused of such behaviour." It is easier than it sounds, for conviction can be obtained by a simple majority, "at which point a sentence can be passed, which could in theory involve Tony Blair being sent to prison". This was catnip to Blair's longtime pursuer George Galloway, and yesterday the Bradford West MP began the formal process with the clerk of the Commons. A select committee must now progress the matter. The ball is rolling; does Blair have friends in the House sufficient to stop it? Already this is the stuff of history. Could anyone else have provoked a joint enterprise between George Galloway and the Heff?

• The milk of human kindness flows from the Department for Education, and the beneficiaries will be our schoolchildren. Wasn't it great that, mindful of nothing save for the health of our young 'uns, Michael Gove moved to prescribe what appears to be milk availability in every school? Only it isn't. Existing free schools and academies will be exempted; for having given them autonomy, he can't retrospectively fiddle with their contracts. And it isn't quite the gift it appears. Margaret Thatcher snatched away free supplies of milk; Gove now orders schools to sell it. A headteacher disinclined to embrace fresh diktat from Whitehall need stock only a single carton to comply. And then there is the announcement itself, apparently brought forward. No general briefing under embargo. Most paid to monitor the doings of the Gove-ite empire knew nothing about it until the mid-afternoon appearance of the announcement on the website. Gove has had a bumpy time recently – a cockfight with Theresa May, the troublesome decision of his acolyte Dominic Cummings to publicly rubbish David Cameron. A cynical soul might think he was keen to create a distraction.

• Further to the Guardian's investigation into the middle-class annexation of representative politics, one is reminded of the recent example of a prospective Labour councillor who advertised for someone less time-poor to do his campaigning for him. All was well until this diary blew the whistle. The advert was withdrawn quite quickly; somehow he found the time and will to campaign for himself. And then there is the tale of the bashful, well-to-do candidate who, asked to state his qualifications, said he had studied "languages at a college in the Midlands". It transpired he read classics at Oxford.

• This just in, on the BBC – its "bias", its alleged embrace of everything that tickles tummies in the Labour party and here at the Guardian. Off we'll go to the 40th anniversary conference of the energetically right-of-centre Centre for Policy Studies, the thinktank founded by Thatcher's go-to man for illiberal, often mad ideas, Sir Keith Joseph. Indeed, this is the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty 2014. Looking forward to the session on "New media and liberty": it's chaired by the Today programme's Justin Webb. Just hope those bias-obsessed brutes at the Mail and Telegraph go easy on him.

• For today's event, in London's Guildhall, is a worthwhile event; and we are not the only ones who think so. In this time of retrenchment and penny-pinching, the cash-rich, democracy-lite City of London Corporation sponsored the rightwing bash to the tune of £45,000.

• Raised eyebrows, finally, as the Catholic charitable organisation Caritas Social Action Network tells of its parliamentary reception. The diary date is 5 November. A small body of committed Catholics at the heart of the Palace of Westminster. We look to Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and the keynote speaker, to keep the Queen's peace.

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