In case you've been in a coma the last couple of weeks and just woken up, Peter Hain is launching his latest book on 26 January - called Back to the Future of Socialism. According to tweets by his publisher it is already a No1 Best Seller on Amazon. If you expect a Labour MP to launch a book on saving us all from the evils of Capitalism in a Labour heartland that has looked after him and his extended family so well for over two decades you'd be sadly mistaken. The launch is apparently in the Jubilee Room, Houses of Parliament, in the evening. I mean, where else would you expect? Windsor Road?

I looked it up. No 1 in Books? Er, no. Society, Politics and Philosophy - no. Government and Politics within that previous category - nope. OK, it must be No 1 then within the next sub-category, Political Science and Ideology - still not there. Next sub-category is Socialism - at last, there it is No 1 and No 2 for hardback and Kindle respectively. Third is a Kindle book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy which I'm sure we all have on our bookshelves in the book version, by a man named Joseph Schumpeter. (Is it something about the name Peter that predisposes you to write books on Socialism?)

I understand that other famous socialist, Lord Neil Kinnock, will be at the book launch. He has already provided a few words for Hain's book: "Taking up where Tawney and Crosland left off, Peter Hain shows practical ways in which sustained recovery of fairness, fulfilment and freedom can be achieved in this generation." I love those fine principles of "fairness, fulfilment and freedom" but I somehow can't get my mind to go beyond the first word in Kinnock's statement, "taking". You see, whenever I see the names Kinnock and Hain in print that's a word that I somehow can't forget. "Taking". Perhaps I need therapy.

Finally, I'd remind readers I wrote an article about Hain and his impending book (then to be called "The Future of Labour") last April. I called my article Back to the Future Part 679 (there were 679 references on Amazon if you typed in Labour Party Future). Any chance I may have a case for plagiarism? I reckon he's gone and nicked the idea for the title off me, ha ha!