For a little over an hour today, the United Kingdom was governed by Her Majesty and the Civil Service. I think it went very smoothly indeed.
I hear from the Today Programme that President Bush thinks that History will judge Blair kindly. Well it is possible, I suppose. Though I know some of the people who’ll have a hand in actually writing the first, second and third drafts of it, and many of them will have quite a lot of sympathy with this sort of list.
If anyone ever tries to tell me that impartial narration of facts is possible, I think I shall point them at that list - it’s a rather fine example of a gloriously, knowingly impartial list. Which is not to say that it is ‘wrong’ or should be discounted out of hand. ‘Biased’ does not, contrary to what GCSE History tries to tell you, mean ‘ignorable’. See also something like An Inconvenient Truth for another example.