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When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

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It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

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I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

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In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

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Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

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People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

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Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

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When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion.

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When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

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I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

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