It's not every day a Prime Minister quits his own party to run an election against it. Middle Eastern politics just get more surreal by the day.
I'd love it if it happened more often - Blair quits to run against Brown, Bush takes on the Church, Keane plots to replace Fergie...hmm...perhaps it happens more than we think!
For football supporters in the UK this could be good news. Basically, Sky will no longer have a monopoly on Premiership football.
But what's stopping another cable company (NTL/Setanta etc.) bidding and winning. Would fans then have to fork out for 2 subscriptions?
Now British TV is as 3 dimensional as ever, perhaps BBC and ITV could bid together?
As long as ITV let BBC produce the show. Until John Barnes started hosting football on Five, ITV's 'The Premiership' was possibly the worst sport programme ever.
Ok, as much as he was a welcome guest on the show, I have to question a recent comment by Tony Blair that, following a defeat in the House of Commons, ‘MPs are out of touch’.
This is a man who (rightly or wrongly) took Britain to war in Iraq despite overwhelming public opposition (pre war Gallup put it around 70% in the UK opposed).
What does he know that is so in touch with the public? Does he merely read The Sun and see that as the voice of the people? Although I didn’t vote for her I’m pleased that my local MP (Labour, and a former criminal lawyer) opposed this detention bill. Stephen Fry for PM in my mind. And I’d have Jose Mourinho, Andrew Flintoff, Chas’n’Dave and Bobby Gillespie in the cabinet.