You can tell the journalists are itching to get stuck into this election campaign. I had the misfortune of eating my breakfast in front of the most thorough coverage of a banal subject I've ever seen - the queen returning to Buckingham Palace by helicopter to wait for the PM to ask her to dissolve parliament. They had a helicopter filming her helicopter, and seemed genuinely miffed when it landed just out of sight of their prying cameras. Purrlease.
And while we're at it, if getting rid of everyone in the House of Commons was as easy as asking the monarch to dissolve it, you have to wonder why Guido Fawkes and his mates went to all that effort to blow up the place.