Tonight, Tony Blair suffered the biggest rebellion among his own party since taking office, when 122 Labour MPs voted against military intervention.

With the Prime Minister having always been the consummate tracking-poll politician, the fact that he is persisting with his course in the face of such overwhelming opposition indicates that he absolutely believes he is right.

He is such a skilful political operator, you'd think it wouldn't be beyond him to be able to persuade the citizens on whose behalf he governs to share his certainty?

You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.

Nice piece in the Washington Post on what happened between Dan Rather and Saddam after the cameras were turned off.

I missed this letter from Monty Python's Terry Jones in The Observer a couple of weeks back. As - like everyone else - I've been struggling to rationalise what has been happening, and what appears likely to happen; this just simply makes it all clear.

It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.

And talking of which, it was only a matter of time before the most obvious manifestation of French culture - at least as far as folks in Florida are concerned - was targeted.

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