Tomorrow is the Oxford Media Convention — the most important media policy gathering in the UK each year. It’s like a Madonna concert … well … except there is no Madonna and it’s much more expensive. The cheapest tickets to be had are 245 GBP and up. So, while much of the talk will be about the citizens and consumers, the great unwashed themselves won’t be attending. They probably wouldn’t be that interested anyway: Oddly for a media convention most of the discussion will centre on the state and its instruments of governance in this sector: subsidy, regulation and bullying self-regulation.

I’ll be there, though. Looking forward to it.

I’m particularly interested in hearing James Purnell’s plans for the new convergence think-tank. If you’re like most people upon hearing that a new convergence think-tank was being formed you might have thought — I thought that was Ofcom’s role?. And, if new thinking needs to be done by a new entity in this area does that mean something has gone wrong with Ofcom?

I’ll update this blog sometime on Thursday evening or Friday with my thoughts on the debate…