What's blue and white, squiggly, and suddenly appears in the sky?

If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents recently.

Blair became a neocon after 9/11.

By agreeing to support the USA come what may he committed the UK to the neocon agenda, which had wanted to get rid of Saddam ever since Bush Senior failed to do it during the first Gulf War.

His problem then was persuading a sceptical public, Parliament and Labour Party to back him and in this he succeeded brilliantly. He stretched and twisted the truth and was able to do so because ultimately, as the Prime Minister, a lot of people gave him the benefit of the doubt.

He has gravely damaged the reputation of that office and is in no small part responsible for the low opinion in which politicians generally are now held.

Very sad to see such an able man, who was elected trailing clouds of glory, sink to this and take so many colleagues down with him.

The Cabinet, the civil service and the intelligence agencies were all supine to an astonishing degree. In the end, with a few honourable exceptions, when faced with the choice between their careers and political/personal integrity, they chose their careers, as to have gone against Blair and his crusade would mean only one thing - the exit.

A truly shameful episode in UK political history, worse even than Suez.

And so to Southwark Cathedral with 1000 others, including my pal, eco-coach Donnachadh McCarthy (bravely overcoming his aversion to organised religion, although as I pointed out to him I’m not sure if a disorganised religion would be any better) to listen to the Archbishop of Canterbury discuss Operation Noah, the Church of England’s environmental campaign, writes Julia Stephenson.

I’ve been a practicing Buddhist for 18 years yet I’m always keen to visit a cathedral – as far as I’m concerned you can’t have too many bells, smells, soaring ceilings and heart-thumpingly good hymns.