They're building it up as make or break week for Tony Blair what with the vote on tuition fees and the publication of the Hutton Report. The papers and news stories are full of gloom and doom for the Prime Minister.

Well, let me stick my neck out and make a couple of predictions. Firstly, that Blair will win his vote. Secondly, that he although he will be bruised by the Hutton Report and the subsequent debate on it his opponents will not quite be able to deliver the knockout blow.

The Telegraph has an in-depth report. The answer? Planning.

But you knew that.

...has his own blog. At last.

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When David Carr, of Samizdata fame, sent me an e-mail (text-in-full quoted above) this afternoon he must have felt confident. The title of said e-mail was "Watford v. Chlesea" a reference to the encounter today between debt ridden, relegation-threatened, Division One Watford Football Club (of which I am a fully unpaid up fairweather supporter) and billionaire-bankrolled, all-star, Euro-rolling Chelsea Football Club (of which he is a fully paid up, soul sold, my-life-is-the-result, season ticket holder).

In light of these facts I am sure David will forgive me a brief period of gloating:

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