Television remains a world of wonder.   Who would think to switch on the set to hear Graeme Le Saux's views on period pains and transgender toilet arrangements?   This joy came to us courtesy of a Sky News programme called The Pledge, a talk show on which the former international full back is a regular panellist.  

It bills itself as a no-holds-barred, straight-talking, cool-fizzing - or something -forum, where professional gobshites like Nick Ferrari (and I mean that in a caring way) mingle with opinion formers from other fields such as novelist, journalist, and famous sister, Rachel Johnson, and the Chelsea and Blackburn Rovers overlapping full back of the 1990s, to discuss issues of the day.

Its big idea is that there is no moderator, that it will be a free-flowing debate from which enlightenment will flow.   And while only a fool would tune into Sky News seeking enlightenment, the show's sort of welcome at the moment because it's not taking part in the Europe debate, which is rapidly turning into the Blues-and-Buffs from Pickwick Papers.