Blair's last stand

Tony Blair today, in his final speech to the Labour Party conference as leader, showed why he has so far seen off, four or five Tory leaders (I can't remember the exact figure there have been so many I think at least two were bald), he painted the picture of how Britain was 10 years ago, his principles, thanked contributors particularly Gordon Brown, mapped out the future, changing energy requirements, globalisation and terrorism with perhaps genuine sincerity.

I realise that not everyone has the 50 plus minutes to devote to listening or watching Tony Blair give his final speech to the party faithful, but if you do click this Link.

It's understandable if you don't take up the offer as we live in a trivial world, where celebrity is more important than substance, where even the so-called serious journalistic enterprises such as BBC's Panorama, consider bungs in the Football Industry as hard news, the Sunday Times devotes a whole page to that heavy weight journalist Jeremy Clarkson waffling on about the sanctity of BBC's Top Gear but this speech was interesting and informative so if you've nothing better to do, I must admit I only sat through it as I had the afternoon free.