Is it evidence, perhaps, of the true instincts of the newish prime minister, Gordon Brown, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer had helped introduce the reforms under Mr Blair?
However improbably, that is a mantle he will have to go on wearing.Yet Mr Bush has already mocked him for flip-flopping; and Mr Kerry's true instincts are more cautious.
I got in touch with my body's true instincts, my bio-individuality and by flooding my body with nutritious, real food, I was able to make small and delicious shifts that worked for me.
This truer internal voice comes from the wild part of you, the part that is connected to the natural world and to your truer instincts.
This, he claims, was the true Conservative instinct breaking free after years of rebranding aimed at showing the Tories had changed, he says.
But Bendtner, betraying his lack of a true predatory instinct was not in prime position to profit and Alberto Rodriguez is able to hack clear.
If Lee possessed the "true killer instinct," a ruthless audacity in battle second to none, Winik adds at once that there was also "a surprising and decidedly unusual feminine side to him: a sweetness... a tenderness unthinkable in other great fighting men".
The final scene oozes symbolism: having penetrated the Death Star's trench in his phallic spacecraft, he closes his eyes, submits to his true inner instinct and triumphantly blasts his X-Wing's seed into an anus-like aperture, causing an orgasmic eruption that changes his universe for ever.
He seems sweet and true (problematic instincts and history aside).
Climbing plastic rocks doesn't: a) confirm your true punk instincts by shunning the crass commercialism of sports like football, or, b) separate you from the snobbishness of the intellectual class by showing your passion for actual experiences as well as intellectual ones.
What does it mean for the succession, assuming that Mr Blair is true to his instinct and goes in three years' time?
