I did have some vague notion about publishing a few new year resolutions - on the basis that if I've published them then I really need to stick to them. Well, on the same basis, if I don't let on what they may be, then I can't be hauled over the coals for not sticking to them. So I'll keep them to myself.

I was going to try and be a bit less critical of politicians and the woeful state of affairs in the UK this year - but then I thought of all the wonderful material I'd be denied sharing with you. Like this for example.

Our PM, Mr Blair, in yet another rather nauseating attempt to ingratiate himself with an increasingly dissaffected public has had a short film made of a typical day. His official website carries an "Exclusive insight into the PM's working life" during which he confides "nothing prepares you for the difficulty of being Prime Minister".

In the briefest of glimpses - three minutes and 30 seconds - Mr Blair is at his desk taking a break during a "typically busy day", confiding his thoughts as scenes of "typical" engagements flash on screen. Brief it may be, but not so brief that he cannot find time to take a sideswipe at his Tory opponent.

"Being leader of the Opposition does not prepare you quite adequately for the difficulty of doing the Prime Minister's job, just because it's completely a different order of stress, challenge, pressure.

"The hours are very. . . [pause for emphasis]. . . long." Cue shot of dust blowing through a deserted Downing Street with only the Prime Minister's lights still shining late into a moonless night.

Perhaps few will bother viewing the website following the results announced on Monday of the Today programme listeners' vote for the most "powerful person in Britain".

They put Mr Blair seventh, behind the European Commission president Jose Manual Barroso, Rupert Murdoch, the Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy, Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, Parliament and "the British people".

Here's hoping 2006 will be a bumper year for us all.