Tony [blair] Slowly Sucked Me Back In

My Closest Friend, Who Died Not Long Ago, Is Buried Near Marx's Grave In Highgate Cemetery, So I See The Gaggle Of Admirers Laying Roses At The Foot Of His Tombstone Regularly. I Have Never Been Tempted To Leave Flowers There Myself. Great Theories, Shame About The Practice. Marx Did Many Things. But Inventing Class Was Not One Of Them.

May I Share With You My Earliest Memory Of A Political Row? It Was With My Mother, About The Queen - Classic Freudian Stuff, Shrinks Would Say. I Was Eight, And Refusing To Watch The Queen's Christmas Day Broadcast.

The Royal Family's Existence Is A Constant Reminder Of The Hollowness Of John Major's Rhetoric, And Idiotic Statements By Its Leading Members A Constant Boost To The Republican Cause. They're Fine Opening Hospitals. It's When They Open Their Mouths They Get Into Trouble.

The Thing About Politicians In Britain Is That They Are Out There, You Can Lobby Them, Get Close To Them, There Are Loads Of Ways You Can Protest Against Them, And Booing Is A Pretty Weak Way Of Doing It.

I Have A Nightmare About Tony [blair] And Gordon [brown] Killing Each Other. Not Every Month, But Now And Then. I Also Have A Recurring Dream About Losing.