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Tony Blair visits a Murdoch symposium in Pebble Beach, California and delivers a paper to the great man and his courtiers entitled "Leadership in the Modern World". This seems like some kind of false deferment on the part of the Dirty Digger - he is after all a man who has devoted al his adult life to the pursuit of money and power, and has exercised more leadership than most mortals in the modern age. The trip is widely seen as an audition on Blair's part; it seems that he is after a sinecure in the Murdoch empire in the post-Downing Street world. It all makes everyone look rather impressive; Blair gets to deliver his "statecraft" address and Murdoch gets to preen his vanity by having a world leader talk at his frat party. Just couldn't help thinking of the Sun King.

The Guardian; Tuesday 1/8/06

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