Tracy Barlow reacts to being found guilty in Coronation Street. Photograph: ITV/PA
Tracy Barlow has been found guilty. I'm not sure what she's done, but regular watchers of Coronation Street agree that she did, at least, do it. Unlike her mum, Deirdre, who went to prison in 1998 for a crime that she didn't do.
You'll remember that, of course, because it was in the first flush of the first term of His Majesty the Tony. The big speeches having died down, and nothing at all having occurred since, this was a golden time for Blair. The clearest index of this, the one that history will remember, was that he came out in support of the fictional Deirdre Barlow. "Let her go!" he said, with a winsome grin. It was such a finely tuned counterpoint to his Lady Di performance the year before that you can just see the memo arriving on his desk, with little comedy/tragedy masks at the top - "Just as I share your pain," it said, "so I share your chortles".
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