Well, I've got used to reporting on Damon Albarn's continued hopes for a full Blur reunion, but now Alex James is chipping in too. Saying that he thinks that the full band is "too good a thing to let disintegrate", he told the BBC: "I've got high hopes that Blur will have a happy four-piece ending. I think it would be a shame if it didn't really. I think we'd all like to make another record. We'd all like to do it with Graham. I've been talking to Graham a bit and hopefully I can persuade him. I'm going to have to beg him though."
He continued: "One way or another, there'll be another Blur album, with or without Graham - but hopefully with Graham. I think it's definitely worth trying. I'm sure Paul McCartney feels the same, but I still don't think we've made our best record yet. That's one of the things you get when you're a musician. You think, 'I'm going to do something brilliant in a minute'. If you don't think that, you've got to stop."
Personally I'm not sure that reunion is ever going to happen, although presumably James is on better terms with Coxon than I am, and perhaps his powers of persuasion are extraordinary. I seem to remember that the last time this issue came up, Coxon said: "I hate Blur, it ruined my life, and I would rather die than ever record with Albarn and company ever again, ever. Ever. Ever. Okay?" Well, it was something like that, anyway.