He did no wrong but was dismissed because Mr Blair either (a) misinterpreted a genuine lapse of memory as an attempt to mislead or (b) panicked at the adverse publicity generated by an innocent man's convolutions.
But so far Mr Brown is not involved: there is nothing to suggest that he knew of these convolutions, even though the bulk of the payments were made after he took office in June.So far the prime minister has done half the job.
Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
But the ruling generals, with dismaying convolutions, have brought scant political gains or economic relief, questionable justice and a dangerous polarisation.
It convened the Madrid conference that, ten years and many convolutions later, collapsed last year at Camp David.With victory at hand against the Taliban (though not yet, it seems, against al-Qaeda), the second Bush administration also finds itself with capital to spend in the region capital that comes from the display of American military might and impressive political resolution.
Seventeen months after the uprising that toppled Mr Mubarak, the most populous Arab country remains tangled in a web of rumour, mistrust and Byzantine legal convolutions.
But it makes little narrative sense, tripping up on its own convolutions and fatally lacking in tension.
Cranes and the adult male limpkin have an extremely long trachea, or windpipe, that is coiled in several convolutions.
The jejunum forms the upper two-fifths of the rest of the small intestine; it, like the ileum, has numerous convolutions and is attached to the posterior abdominal wall by the mesentery, an extensive fold of serous-secreting membrane.
These convolutions of the trachea probably give added power and resonance to the voice, which can carry for distances of a mile or more.
The human cortex is several centimetres thick and has a surface area of about 2,000 square cm (310 square inches), largely because of an elaborate series of convolutions; the extensive development of this cortex in humans is believed to distinguish the human brain from those of other animals.
