His blind subservience to Bush and co all but destroyed his reputation in this country and in much of Europe. Unloved by his own people, he is now doomed to wander the earth, welcome only at Neo-Con fund-raisers and the desert palaces of gas-rich Kazakh dictators. Blair, of course, is the truest of believers, and it literally seems never to have occurred to him that, had he followed the shrewd example of Harold Macmillan over Vietnam, he’d probably be remembered as very good PM. What’s more, the Americans would have thought no less of him because, to be honest, they don’t really think about him at all. To them he’s the leader of Belgium.