Liberals and Power: A Day in the Life of The Guardian posted by Richard Seymour

Imagine boredom. If it proves too difficult, have a look at The Guardian's leader comments , that should induce the desired state. You feel enervated, languidly at ease on your beanbag cushion, yawning while flicking through your copy of Health & Efficiency magazine, rhythmically tapping your knee to the sound of the clock's gentle meting out of time.

That, according to Peter Preston of The Guardian, is the national mood with respect to this government, and Tony Blair in particular. 2 million people hit the streets from sheer numbness of mind, and now they "seem indecently anxious to be rid of [Blair]" out of unalloyed lassitude. Preston complains that "the chattering classes seldom chatter about" this possibility, an odd lapse into self-loathing for someone who is himself a member of "the chattering classes", and who at any rate rectifies this sad situation with his column:

"We're bored ... Eleven years of Frasier, nine years of Friends, five years of the Sopranos, seven years of Blair ... We don't care what a twinkling bloke he is any longer. We've had it up to here with mission visions and rictoid grins. Now please, can we switch channels?"

From self-loathing we have proceed to loathing of the masses. The only reason we could have any animus against such a "star, a best for Britain" is because we want a new drama. Politics is just television, even if we occasionally trample the streets in search of a new plot. Now, we will oust Blair just to obtain a new tragicomedy to soothe our bored souls.

Blair will "get through his difficult week". "Probably deservedly".

We oppose mass murder because we are "bored". Tony Blair deserves to remain in power, despite his recent involvement in mass murder. And, to add to that, The Guardian leader tells us that Blair must be honest and admit that there was an intelligence failure in relation to Iraq, that we had gone to war on the basis of flawed information which Tony Blair allowed himself to believe. No possibility then that Blair is a liar, a mass murderer, and a discreditted charlatan whom we, the public, are anxious to rid ourselves of?