Is it my imagination or do the posts on other blogs get more interesting towards mid-week? Do bloggers save up their best material for Wednesday? A glance around the blogs this evening reveals four more than interesting stories indeed.

Melanie Phillips doesn’t post all that much but then, from nowhere, she strikes and it usually hits the nail right on the head. So it is today: The attempt to force the Prime Minister out of office has now reached hysteria pitch, with hitherto loyal Blairites apparently signing a letter telling him: ‘In the name of God, go!’

But pinch yourself — he’s already said he’s going. He said, months ago, that he would stand down before the next general election, and that he would give his successor as leader of the party and Prime Minister ample time to bed in before fighting that election. (That announcement was surely the most stupid mistake the normally supremely adroit Blair has ever made, since it was always bound to create precisely what has now developed — a clamour to know The Date of his departure …

Oliver Kamm has a wry piece on advice for Tony Blair.

Minette Marin writes of the drug HGH and on claims by two people to have at last found the secret of long life.

I replied on her site: You've hit the nail on the head with the question of why we'd want to stay alive interminably. For a Christian, this is a non-issue. For those to whom this life is all there is, then perhaps the frenetic desire to prolong it falls into the category '... officiously to keep alive'.

Black Quill posits that 911 was a put up job and cites evidence for this. Personally, nothing will beat the greatest work of fiction from the second half of the twentieth century – the Warren Report - which even had Richard Nixon smiling during his tenure.