Postwar Tony: going back to what he does best - Simon Hoggart

"Back to real business yesterday. Tony Blair gave another press conference in Downing Street. His postwar look is pretty terrible, though not anything like as bad as the fashion plate pictures of himself in the Financial Times [read interview here] this weekend."

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"Over in the Commons, Jack Straw pointed out that British troops had already repaired and reopened the railway line between Umm Qasr and Basra, and was now extending it to Baghdad.

Tories couldn't quite believe what they heard. They had managed this feat in around a fifth of the time it took to re-open the Central Line in London, and one thousandth of the time we've been faffing round over the West Coast Line. Why doesn't the army run everything?"