[jaguar]

twas an utterly perfect vignette of New Labour, autocratic, undemocratic, paranoid of criticism, more worried about appearance than substance and totally hypocritical and all topped off perfectly by Blair's always-fresh 'well I wasn't there at the time' approach to anything going wrong. All in all it neatly summed up everything that's wrong with this government better than any opposition figure. That, and maybe, just maybe we get to see DeLay and fellow shitballs in orange jumpsuits, it hasn't been such a bad week after all.

BigV - he was barred from re-entering the conference under the prevention of terrorism act. Apparently heckling someone as boring as Straw is now terrorism. There are 2 rational responses to listening to Straw, sudden-onset narcolepsy or rapidly increasing indignation.