If you saw Tony Blair's interview with Sopel, and that form of words is right: the Prime Minister has always used the media. not vice versa; then, you, like I, will wonder what Britain he is experiencing:
In a bizarre interview with the BBC's Politics Show, Mr Blair said: I think in many ways the last 18 months has been our most radical, most bold on the domestic agenda.
Now it's also been the most difficult incidentally, but I think in time to come, for setting ourselves up as a political party for the next election, but also as a platform of change for the country, it has in many ways been the most productive period of internal domestic reform.'
Mr Blair has said he wants to attend an EU summit at the end of June as Prime Minister, and made clear he would be at the next G8 talks that month.
There is some indication that he may still wish to stay on after that. He does not sound like a man who wishes to step down and declined to endorse Brown. And desperate men are incline to undertake desperate measures to survive. Has Blair reached the Thatcherite stage of going on and on. Will he step outside the limitations of convention, psychologically assured that his country needs him, even though the UK does not really, you know, know it.
The aspect of this year that requires watching is the European Constitution. Merkel, the German Chancellor, has placed this infernal text back on the agenda, and Blair may view the destruction of the UK, subsumed in Europe, as the perfect legacy. Like Samson, he brings down the temple.