There’s a very short list of important questions, these days, to which the right answer is ‘Tony Blair’. I mean, a really short list. In a round of the US gameshow Jeopardy , when the host says ‘Tony Blair’, nobody is going to win a doublewide trailer by piping up: ‘Who would be the best person to be king of the Gaza Strip once all the bodies have been cleared away?’

The scheme circulating for Blair the Viceroy involve GITA entering Gaza as its ‘supreme political and legal authority’

And yet. Our former prime minister – now, though the way he carries on it’s easy to forget, a private citizen – is reported to be putting himself forward as the king, or interim leader, or chairman of the board, of whatever is supposed to pick up the pieces after the bombing and smiting stops. Blair has ye

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