Whole careers were made on the back of predicting wonderful things would emerge on the backs on invading Iraq. If you were a middle aged journalist, and you had given up everything you believed in, you could live the life of riley by calling Stop the War coalition Bin Ladenists every week.

Much has been written about Dick Cheney's wickedness, and rightly so, but it's easy to forget just how personally and professionally lucrative the 9/11 wars were for a generation of journalists. Wars which now, of course, they don't even try to defend any more.

Because living in the fantasy of going back to the economy of the mid-2000s, of a growth bonzana with cheap credit and, crucially, without free immigrant labour from Eastern Europe, is a fantasy which allow Blairites to skirt the awkward buisness of doing everything we should have done in 2008/09/10

A bit harsh. Politics is more than that. Unfortunately secterianism is the curse of left-wing parties. 'Too many socialist parties and not enough socialists' to quote Tony Benn.