As for Tony Blair: "It was Blair who spearheaded Nato's involvement in Kosovo on behalf of Muslims battered by the Serb government.
Let us hope that it is Blair who receives the punishment - at the ballot box next spring.
But it was Blair who kicked off the cult of youth, and allied this youth to "making things the world wants to buy".
And it is Blair, spending several hours with me, who has clearly been assigned the job of speaking for the Murdoch family as a whole, of representing the organism.
Tebbit goes on: "It was Blair who introduced uncontrolled, unmeasured immigration of people determined not to integrate, but to establish, first ghettos, and now demands for separate legal jurisdiction.
As I left I heard Lord Mandelson on the radio saying that the manifesto was not Blairite, it was "Blair-plus", which managed to subtly insult both men.
"I think it's 'Blair Witch' backwards," Devin Faraci, a writer for the horror Web site chud.com, said via e-mail.
"There is a near consensus — though one in which London does not want to participate — that it cannot be Blair for the Council President job," said Thomas Klau of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
But ask yourself: is it boring to be Blair and not Barak?Mr Barak's famous exploits include donning a wig and mowing down Israel's enemies in Beirut.
