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Next week's Pods and Blogs will feature a report from the new web-based television station which launched about a week ago. But if you can't wait, you can see yours truly make a in this video here (shot I might add on a perfectly ordinary digital camera)

To its critics 18 Doughty St is Tory TV, to its supporters it's a refreshing alternative to mainstream media political coverage and to others it's, well, a bit of both. Last Monday I visited politics programme. The guests were (see picture), and . A certain was lurking in the background though I didn't see any evidence of he apparently carries around with him

18 Doughty St is a bit like for political junkies except that it actually is located at 18 Doughty St, a mere stone's throw from one of London's finest, the Duke of York pub. The studio that you don't need dozens of people to make good TV. A well behaved dog sits infront of the production cubicle, while the tatooed floor-manager marshalls Iain and guests. Production gallery, sofa's, set and camera's all fit into a large living room sized space.

It was a short trip to Doughty St, slotted in between the end of a production shift on Five Live Drive and hashing together the segment but it was, to use a daft sounding word, stimulating. If they can steer clear of becoming a talking shop for people with a common ideology and atune themselves to the voices of ordinary people, they should do very well indeed.