Could have fooled me

But not others, apparently.

Blears denies criticism of Brown

"Promote your message via YouTube if you want to. But it is no substitute for knocking on doors or setting up a stall in the town centre," she wrote. So, a ringing endorsement in fact, as suggested by Alan Johnson on the Andrew Marr show, revealing a grasp of reality in the Cabinet that is truly unique.

QUOTE OF THE DAY - Repeat it often enough...

Just now from the sports reporter on SKY..

'"We were the better team,' says Sir (is there any one, anywhere, not a Sir now?) Alex Ferguson... after his team's 4-1 defeat by Liverpool."

This might explain quite a lot these day.

Reality Gap

I am seeing more and more tripe trotted out by pols and such, faithfully trotted out by the media, and then endlessly chewed on by the commentariat, almost all missing one vital aspect... the reality gap.

And that is accepting that no matter what you want or what should be, there now what is, and will be. So it might be better to devote more energy to accepting inevitability and work on adjustments to these than railing against frankly done deals.

Just today I look at headlines that refer to absentee fathers, choices of weapons, etc that are all well and good but simply closing the stable door after the horse has nicked it and invoked the human rights act to entitle them to do so.