Boris Johnson is overcome by a remarkable lack of the required Tory schadenfreude at the resignation last night of David Blunkett as home secretary.
Johnson - recently banished from the Tory front bench because of a recent scandal surrounding his personal life - wonders whether he alone is feeling "melancholy" at the "ruin" of Mr Blunkett.
He writes: "Whatever you think of his conduct of the Home Office - and I am not a fan - it is astonishing that a blind man could begin to manage a job like that".
It just gets you right there, don't it?
Meanwhile, on Hounourable Friend, guest blogger Steve Bowbrick writes: "You just lost your number one electoral asset to an unelected cabal of sensation-hungry press and a woman scorned. Get over it."
He goes on to advise Labour on how to beat Michael Howard's Tories in next year's general election. First, he says, cancel ID cards, and then "brief aggressively against Blunkett's obsession with the scheme".
That, however, is an approach that the new home secretary, Charles Clarke, is not buying.
