the left are down, but there's a sniff of revolution in the air

This, then, is the thought Brown might have mulled as he watched Blair announce his exit. Is it possible that the Blair era of neoliberal certainty is coming to a close, that there are stirrings abroad that call for something else? Might there not be a demand for action, as there was when the last intolerable gap in wealth opened up nearly a century ago -- a demand, in short, for a battle against inequality?