The answer to this of course is: Yes you ignorant lump now be quiet

The answer to this, of course, is: “Yes, you ignorant lump, now be quiet and go away.”He won’t, of course None of them will. The grisly blood-cocktail was introduced covertly so that the finger of blame could be pointed at M. Paul, who was employed by Mohamed Al Fayed, well known to be despised by the British establishment.In fact, some stories go, the Princess wasn’t even the target of the putative assassination. Instead it was Dodi, who was variously picked off either to get at his father or to stop him marrying the Princess, converting her to Islam, getting her in turn to persuade William and Harry to convert to Islam, and creating a constitutional crisis on a scale not seen since Henry VIII converted to cockneyism.One poor internet conspiracist even asks, in a tone of withering cynicism, whether there really were “religious reasons” why Dodi’s body had to be buried so quickly.

The conspiracy theorists rattle on about the stuff that doesn’t add up in the accident that killed the Princess, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their chauffeur, Henri Paul. But Mr Burrell, faithful servant as he styles himself as being, has decided to ignore that advice, and do battle against the dark forces swirling around us.
First and foremost, he has decided to publish a handwritten letter from Diana, Princess of Wales, given to him 10 months before her death as “insurance”. In it she reveals that she suspected some person or organisation of “planning an accident in my car. Brake failure or serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry”.My initial thought on reading this revelation was that the poor woman should have listened to her own worries, and got into the habit of wearing a seat belt.

The Queen herself, apparently, warned Paul Burrell that he should “be careful” because there were “powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge”. But equally he isn’t going to leave voluntarily before he has completed the only shot he has at changing the country as well as the party. And if time is running out to do just that, it has a lot more to do with the remorseless cycle of politics than a brief health scare from which he shows every sign of enjoying a complete recovery.d.macintyre independent.co.uk
More from Donald Macintyre. These can be viewed as sacrifices, but republicans hope they will be the prelude to gains on their part.To date they have employed the shadow of the gunman very shrewdly in this process, keeping the spectre of the IRA hovering in the background to help extract concessions from the other players. But it is clear enough that the Unionist market would not bear much more of this, since Protestants have for years been losing faith in the Good Friday Agreement.Getting the Assembly back means coming up with something to halt and hopefully reverse Protestant disillusion, which means giving David Trimble fresh pro-Agreement arguments.At least one of his opponents within the Ulster Unionist party has been discreetly emitting very private signals – to London, Dublin and to the republicans – that if he were to become leader he would make a deal. While some have mulled this over as a highly intriguing notion, the bottom line is that nobody is prepared to invest political capital in it.Similarly, hardly anybody really believes that elements within Paisleyism are pragmatic enough to envisage meaningful accommodation.

This left David Trimble as the only show in town for the governments and republicans, even though his party is tormented, as he said at the weekend, by “the mixed message, the constant infighting”.The question of whether he can deliver a workable majority for cooperation in the wake of the planned election remains unanswered, but he has recently surprised many by showing fresh vigour in taking on his opponents. Mr Blair surely isn’t going to do anything which would jeopardise the future years of hugely enjoyable family life that lie deservedly ahead of him. As Cook argues at the end of his book, political choice is, or should be, about more than who are the most competent managers.But if that is a political question today, it was also one last Thursday. The prospect of a fresh and hugely welcome breakthrough in Northern Ireland is just one example of how there is more to politics even than making schools and hospitals work better or the trains run on time. There has been for some time a case for posing the question of just what this is, beyond highly desirable public service reform, and what has happened to some for the goals of remaking British politics that he seemed to represent in 1997. What seems to be less so, according to some of his allies, is that insofar as Mr Blair sees the weekend as an intimation of mortality, it is likely to spur him not only to carry on but to be if anything more impatient to do what he believes he can still achieve.

And so on.What’s less clear is whether or not the huge tensions of the last year have really got under his skin, let alone undermined his faith in himself, in the way it is now tempting to assume. Mr Blair told the former Times editor, Peter Stothard, for example, that the moral problem of the deaths caused by the Iraq war “really get to you”. But Mr Stothard reported him as also talking of the need to isolate himself with self-imposed barriers from the consequences of what he had decided to do.Those closest to him say it’s often the petty small change of politics rather than the big issues which get him down personally: Cheriegate rather than Iraq. Since lack of sleep is occasionally thought to contribute to the kind of problems Mr Blair suffered at the weekend, it may just be that Leo Blair may be as much of a factor as, say, plotting British entry to the euro.All this is hopelessly speculative, of course. Whatever the rights and wrongs on both sides, the tensions of the relationship with Gordon Brown are certainly stressful at times. And if Mr Blair can devolve more responsibilities to a now experienced Cabinet, as he is said to be trying to do, then that cannot fail to be good for his health as well as for politics. This isn’t to make light of the much discussed pressures of the job.