Peter Mandelson again

I spent last night with Peter Mandelson's memoir, The Third Man - about which more later perhaps after I've written the review. Some of the pleasure of it comes from the confirmation of Downing Street gossip that I once thought I knew and maybe then even cared about. There would have been even more pleasure if the dark events described had been happening in someone else's  country.

It has certainly been  peculiar to be taken back to political events that I watched so closely as Editor of...