In An Ideal World, It

One Day, We Will Look Back And Wonder How On Earth We Used To Believe That Depression Was A Lifestyle Choice, Only To Be Debated And Taken Seriously When An A List Film Star Took His Life, And The World Filled With People Saying How Shocked And Saddened They Were.

I Remember Talking To Alex Ferguson About Tony [blair] And Gordon [brown], And He Said: "why Doesn't Tony Just Get Rid Of Him?" But If You Sack Someone In Football, They Can't Turn Up To Training The Next Day. In Politics They're Still On The Pitch. Gordon Would Still Have Been A Big Player.

Sometimes Jonathan [powell] And Myself Would Go To Tony [blair] And Ask Him If He Was Absolutely Sure About This Or That. That Was Our Job. But Ultimately It Was His Decision.

Like Most Meaningful Activities, Campaigns Are Team Games.

My Closest Friend, Who Died Not Long Ago, Is Buried Near Marx's Grave In Highgate Cemetery, So I See The Gaggle Of Admirers Laying Roses At The Foot Of His Tombstone Regularly. I Have Never Been Tempted To Leave Flowers There Myself. Great Theories, Shame About The Practice. Marx Did Many Things. But Inventing Class Was Not One Of Them.