PMQs snapshot: The strangely subdued Mr Balls It was a sight the like of which the Commons has never seen. Ed Balls was sitting still. He wasn't heckling. He wasn't making peculiar gestures. Indeed, he was clasping one hand in the other, as if fearful it would misbehave if he didn't keep a close eye on it. This was, in short, the Shadow Chancellor's best impression of a respectable person, and it was deeply unsettling. Did he have something on his mind? Today's PMQs was dominated by the banking scandal, or rather by the inquiry that Parliament may or may not be holding on it. Ed Miliband's six questions were all effectively the same: "Why won't David Cameron hold an independent, judge-led inquiry, like I told him to?" In turn, David Cameron's answers were all essentially, "Oh give it a rest, Drippy." Labour, added Mr Cameron, are against a parliamentary inquiry because "they won't want their dirty washing done in public." This can't quite be right, because if Labour has dirty washing, it would be done just as publicly at a judge-led inquiry as at a parliamentary one. Perhaps what the Prime Minister meant to say was that Labour want their dirty washing done a bit later, and at greater public expense. While we're on the subject of banks, there was also some bickering about the Vickers inquiry (which I always hear as "the Vicar's Inquiry," as if it had been led by Tony Blair). "We may have found the Higgs Boson particle," shouted Mr Cameron, as ever keen to show off his penchant for topical satire, "but Labour haven't found a sense of shame!" This is, incidentally, the same Mr Cameron who, less than 10 minutes later, mocked a Labour MP's quip by crying, "I wonder how long that took to rehearse in front of the bathroom mirror this morning!" But enough PMQs. Time for the real political event of the day: the excitedly awaited visit by the ex-CEO of Barclays to the Treasury select committee. Or, to give it its slightly snappier nickname: the Diamond Jubilee.