You will probably have heard by now that full-time salesman and sometime war leader Tony Blair is flogging his new book.
There do appear to be a number of jaw-dropping revelations in there, but one in particular stopped me in my tracks this morning.
Talking about his "drinking problem," he writes, "Stiff whisky or G&T before dinner, couple of glasses of wine or even half a bottle with it."
A whole half bottle, eh?
Until today I'd thought that this country had only ever had one woman as Prime Minister, but now it appears we've had two.
Churchill will be rolling in his alcohol-soaked grave.
UPDATE 1550
Quote from Glaswegian ex-Northern Ireland Secretary John (now Lord) Reid:
"Where I come from, a gin and tonic, two glasses of wine, you wouldn't give that to a budgie."
There do appear to be a number of jaw-dropping revelations in there, but one in particular stopped me in my tracks this morning.
Talking about his "drinking problem," he writes, "Stiff whisky or G&T before dinner, couple of glasses of wine or even half a bottle with it."
A whole half bottle, eh?
Until today I'd thought that this country had only ever had one woman as Prime Minister, but now it appears we've had two.
Churchill will be rolling in his alcohol-soaked grave.
UPDATE 1550
Quote from Glaswegian ex-Northern Ireland Secretary John (now Lord) Reid:
"Where I come from, a gin and tonic, two glasses of wine, you wouldn't give that to a budgie."
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