Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.