So well done to Peter Luff, Conservative MP for Mid Worcestershire. After beavering away in eminent obscurity for a number of years, our puffed-up little popinjay seems to be enjoying something of a 15 minutes of fame. How he must be hugging himself at the number of column inches he’s got tonight.

And what did Mr Luff do to earn such attention? Was it highlighting poverty and injustice? The rising civilian death-toll in Iraq, perhaps? No, he’s made himself famous by telling people what they should and shouldn’t be watching on television and trying to spoil children’s fun.

First he criticises the BBC for showing Jerry Springer the Opera. Well, that particular bandwagon was rattling along at such as pace it must have been nice for Mr Luff to have the wind in his hair.

“To show it on television where there is a danger children could see it is irresponsible,” he told anyone who would listen. Now, I’m not sure about other parents out there but my kids were tucked up well before the opera started. If anyone let their children stay up late who then subsequently saw the show, I’d argue it’s the parents and not the BBC who are being irresponsible. Still, it’s easier to attack the BBC than potential voters.

Clearly feeling he was on a roll, Luff then went to great lengths yesterday to lay into the BBC’s Saturday morning laff riot, “Dick and Dom in da Bungalow” and it’s associated website.

“Is that really the stuff of public service broadcasting?” he said.

To which I would reply: “Is that really the stuff of a public servant?”

He’s not happy about the show’s “lavatorial” content and a game on the website called “bunged up” - a rather spiffy take on Donkey Kong - where players have to dodge - erm, how to put this delicately? - number twos in a sewer. Now, I’m more concerned about my kids having to dodge real turds in the street because thoughtless bastards lets their dogs shit (there, I said it) willy nilly but Mr Luff obviously doesn’t see the same mileage in public health as he does in shrill witchhunts.

DaDidB goes out every Saturday morning on BBC1 and on Sundays on the CBBC channel. Frankly, it’s genius. If only the rest of the BBC’s output showed a tenth of the imagination and talent, it truly would be an institution to treasure. The show’s got everything - ace gags, brilliant direction and those boys can ad-lib like the pros they are. And it’s a damn sight less patronising than the Heaven And Earth Show which goes out at the same time on a Sunday on BBC1. Sure, it’s lavatorial in places and it’s not trying to be Shakespeare. Luff was on the PM show on Radio 4 this evening wondering why the Dick and Dom website couldn’t have an educational aspect. What does he think children do with the quality hours of the working week? Let the poor little sods have some time off from being groomed into empty-headed drones, please.

It’s harmless. And certainly a lot less offensive than some if the jokes Luff’s parliamentary colleague Ann Winterton was peddling a little while back.

He seems to be the kind of prig who would have got hot under the collar about Flanders and Swann singing “Ma’s out, Pa’s out, Let’s talk rude! Pee Po Belly Bum Drawers. Dance round the garden in the nude, Pee Po Belly Bum Drawers”. Someone, somewhere is having a good time and must be stopped.

I wonder if, when he was a child in the school playground, he used to put his fingers in his ears and shout, “la la la, can’t hear you” when his friends sang “My brother Billy had a ten foot willy”.

Of course, it’s become fashionable to kick the the BBC right now. Who cares about freedom of speech when you can touch populist buttons about wasting the licence fee. It’ll be interesting to see how the Murdoch press treats this story. They rarely miss an opportunity to castigate the BBC. Will they have another go this time or will they rein it in for fear of appearing humourless killjoys? I await with interest.

Now wash your hands.