His cross to Blair

Tony Blair is stepping down as Great Britain's Prime Minister.

This page was never a big fan of Blair's "Third Way" approach to governing, and much of his legacy will be sullied by his misplaced trust in the Bush Administration, shipping young Britons to the killing fields of Afghanistan and Iraq, which precipitated the London bomb attacks of July 7, 2005. However, Blair can point to a handful of successes such as increasing funding to the National Health Service and instituting the U.K.'s first-ever minimum wage.

The Prime Minister appears to have come up with his own English translation of the familiar Chinese curse, which now reads "May you leave in interesting times." Peace and Devolution in Northern Ireland, the rising challenge of the Scottish National Party, and a Europe where the ideological fault lines are shifting, the latest tremor being the election of Nicolas Sarkozy in France.

As for this page, Blair's defining moment was selling out the Liverpool Dockworkers, proving conclusively that his "New Labour" government had nothing to do with real Labour. Here's hoping his successor sees it differently.