Does anyone else think this is a non-issue? We all knew Blair was going to resign before the next election. Indeed, logic decreed it – he knows he’s losing popularity, even if he doesn’t admit it, and he knows too that, if he hands over to brown, labour have a better chance of winning the next election. Even I can see that, and have noted it here before.

So why are the press now in a tizzy just because Blair said something in Australia? He didn’t even say much. I don’t get it, and, frankly, was far more amused when I saw dame Edna taking the piss out of the Americans.