I have spent my whole day wondering why people keep talking to me about Sarah Palin.

On the telephone tonight to a journalist, after yet another aside comment I thought 'blimey, everyone is obsessed with Palin today'

And the penny has only just dropped . The New Statesman is out today and I was interviewed about the Tea Party movement and Palin.
Here is an excerpt;

Dorries says she has been inspired by recent events in the US - the primary victories of O'Donnell and others. With a new government in place, she senses a "wind of change" in the political atmosphere in Britain. In the last parliament, she says, it was "very difficult to talk about the family unit, and to talk about mothers and children . . . as the foundation of society, because it was seen as a very unsexy, untrendy thing to do and the opposite of what a woman should be doing". Given the sympathetic political climate, she sees an opportunity to mobilise a perceived constituency of ignored, stay-at-home mothers. "I think it's time somebody started to represent those mums," she says.

Even I will have to buy a copy tomorrow to read what else I said!