Again, apologies for the lack of posts over the last week or so. This post will hopefully see full service and daily posting resume.
And what better way to get things going again from this side of arbitrary constant, then, than by looking to its favoured son, Tony Blair?
I think the single thing for me that is most important is that whatever I do afterwards it has a real purpose to it, that it is not just about doing a job. This [being Prime Minister] is a position that, once you have occupied it, you have done something that has what I call a real life purpose to it. Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. And certainly in anything I wanted to do afterwards I want to have... it would be a different purpose, but similar in its motivation.
Some might read that as an application for an "international statesman" type role. I read it as an expression of interest for Duncan Fletcher's job as England cricket manager... wouldn't that be fun?
