Interesting - the old bag has kept remarkably quiet since September 11. I can't have been alone in wondering when she'd poke her wizened neck above the parapet, and now she does so with her usual spectacular lack of tact.
Amen to Steve - thank gawd she's no longer in a position to do much damage, and merely remind us what a raving lunatic she was when in power.
But Blair's worrying.
Sure the speech was a fine piece of rhetoric. It even had a few verbs. But when I hear politicos claiming the moral high ground I have to pinch myself.
Any leader who claims a higher authority for his or her actions has got to be dubious, and Blair's moralising in that respect is little different to Lil' Dubbya's eulogising of Billy Graham.
Personally I'd rather have a rational humanist deciding what to do than a crusading zealot of any stripe.
And as for the grand global vision - yeah, it's luvverly cuddly stuff, but in terms of how much influence the man has, I fear the speech may rank with those of the Miss World contestants who yearn for world peace between fluffy animals.