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  • 14/12/2008

Rulers are as good as their advisors. Effective ones have a healthy diversity

presidents and premiers make interesting case studies after leaving office. The likes of Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton have made an industry out of being former heads of government. Tony Blair, now out of work, is a new entrant into this club, and is not its best exponent. In Delhi recently, he revealed a tendency every former head of government must resist in a post-career career: he allowed cracks in the mask of political correctness. He said environmentalists are not policy people, and that it is

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