Live-Blogging The 100 Day Presser

8.58 pm. He'd love a lean agenda, but the circumstances demand more. That's his very careful and politically shrewd disavowal of being an ideological liberal. And - you know what? - I believe him. There does not seem to be an ideological bone in his body. Which makes his pragmatic liberalism as lethal as his winning smile.

8.49 pm. I'm beginning to regret watching this terribly dull and unnecessary pseudo-event.

8.37 pm. "Surprised, troubled, enchanted" ... that was a JFK moment.

8.29 pm. Iraq and Pakistan: reassured? Me neither.

8.23 pm. To finally see a president who truly grasps the vital nature of retaining the rule of law, core Western values and, at the same time, the need to fight Jihadist terror with all the legal, humane weapons we have is an enormous relief after the callowness and cowardice of his predecessor. It was great to hear him talk of the experience of Britain during the Second World War.