Lembit meteors in

Hear that bang?

It was Lembit Opik breaking the sound barrier so he could appear in Central Lobby in front of a BBC TV camera.

We're being treated to a wigging from Lembit about ageism but he doesn't really have much else to add apart from an appeal to the meedja to treat Ming with respect.

Now that noise is the sound of every single newspaper hack who's spent the last three weeks slagging him off, cranking out headlines that involve the phrases "great statesman" and "great leader that our media-obsessed era did not allow."