Blair's greatest achievement
We're told that, whatever you say about Tony Blair, he did make Labour electable. But he didn't. There isn't even that.
Dyke on Blair
Here's my last word in the Blair controversy. Greg Dyke, once an enthusiastic Blair supporter, ended his 2004 autobiography Inside Story, with these words, which can't be bettered:
Battle of Blair biographers
Spent this Sunday morning doing a live BBC1 programme called Sunday Morning Live, and found myself engaged in a surprisingly bad-tempered battle of the biographers with fellow Blair biographer John Rentoul, which took a rather odd and disturbing turn.
The socio-psychology of Blair rage
The Independent's John Rentoul struggles, he writes on his blog, to understand "the socio-psychology of Blair rage." Which shows how living for years in the Westminster village can make the real world look very strange.
The Secretary of State and the firefighter
An odd day yesterday. To the Department of Education for a long, relaxed interview with the new Education Secretary, Michael Gove, whom I'm profiling for the New Statesman; then along to the Fire Brigades Union rally at the TUC for London firefighters.