If you enjoyed watching the Home Secretary's ordeal at the Police Federation conference, then you might want to watch the rest of the event live on the Federation's website.
They are also promising to post archive footage so you can watch those Jacqui Smith moments over and over again, should you so choose.
Perhaps more significant than Police Federation leaders making heavy-handed jokes about cannabis, though, was the conference's decision to call for the right to strike.
One wonders how well the coppers' union knows its history, and the sorry end to which its predecessor came after the police strikes of 1918 and 1919.
With law and order breaking down, these strikes produced the spectacle of city-centre looting, tanks on the streets of Liverpool and a battleship moored in the Mersey
Oh yes, it also resulted in the total destruction of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers, and the summary dismissal of 2,000 police officers.
Given the precedent, perhaps riling the Home Secretary wasn't that good an idea after all.
There is a longer account of the strike elsewhere on Employment Intelligence.
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