"at his best he was courageous, far-sighted, brilliant, idealistic, personally attractive, but that his undoubted achievements are eclipsed by one massive folly: that he tied us umbilically to the worst American president of my lifetime with consequences that were not only disastrous, but catastrophic. The Man was touched by greatness, but ultimately he blew it."
– Chris Mullin, on Tony Blair, from Decline and Fall