The eyes have got weirder over the years, and so has the hair. These are not the natural effects of ageing but something Mephistophelean, I think. The eyes had already begun to pop a little when he decided — after a brief word with God, who naturally concurred — to illegally invade Iraq and create a civil war lasting a generation. Later they began to extrude from his head as if on stalks — the consequence, perhaps, of spending too much time trousering vast sums of money from sinisterly avuncular megalomaniacs in the ’Stans.
What a pleasure it was, then, to see Tony Blair back centre stage at his Future of Britain conference, which may or may not be the precursor to a new political
