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Blair isn't ready to just disappear. "You'll have to put up with me for a bit longer," he told the BBC's famously pugnacious interviewer John Humphrys last week. And at Downing Street, which always looks more like a film set than its screen simulacrums, people are doing their best to act out that message of business as usual. An aide reels off the day's wearying list of prime-ministerial meetings and appointments, before revealing the anguish behind this glassy efficiency in a voice lowered to a whisper: "It reminds me of the end of the Clinton...
...boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...