I don't normal post links or anything that's not to do with the main subject of this blog which is of course me (me! me! me!). But this little nugget from the b3ta newsletter deserves a wider audience. And I am powerless to resist anything that combines my two favourite things: politics and Bugsy Malone.



I don't necessarily agree with all the sentiments but the choice of song is brilliant. It really reminded me of the unbounded optimism I felt May 1 1997; Labour had won with a huge majority; I had hugged Billy Bragg (at some point I will stop crowbarring that into every other post) and things could apparently only get better. They could have been anything that they wanted to be. And look what they were.