PETER HITCHENS: If Tony Blair wants a gleaming gong, he can buy an Order of Lenin on the internet

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

If we had to mark the precise moment when this country finally disappeared up its own digestive tract, it was the day when Anthony Blair became a Knight of the Garter.

This title is a personal gift of the Queen, our Crowned and Anointed Monarch, the last true sovereign in Europe and the heir to a thousand years of law and splendour. She did not have to do it.

Because I cannot bear to believe any other explanation, I will assume that Her Majesty...