Our Dear Leader

7178,00.html”>speech going on the offensive about Iraq, and I have to say once again I find myself in the strange position of admiring him. It’s never happened to me before, admiring a Prime Minister, and it wasn’t an option I’d seriously considered when he was elected in ’97, at which time I found him unappealing. Nor of course do I agree with everything he does now; but about Iraq, the most important issue of the day, he’s not only been firm and consistent, but he’s also been extremely eloquent.