Tony Blair, the UK’s recently ex-Prime Minister, is having to get used to living like the rest of us.
As well as being puzzled why his driver (he’s still got one, so no need to feel too sorry for Tone) now stops at red lights, he’s got his first mobile phone. And he’s having to learn how to use it, which must be as strange to him as it is to us to find out that he can’t use one.
His first experimentation with sms apparently led to a “who are you?” response.
Mrs Thatcher had a similar problem getting to grips with normal life. She had to be given lessons on how to use the phone, as her modus operandi as PM had been to pick it up and say “get me Mr Reagan” or whatever.