Mandelson, the triumph

It is always good to see conventional wisdom overturned. Peter Mandelson's memoir was supposed to be a failure because only very popular politicians are supposed to do well from their books. In the past couple of weeks there has been much media muttering about how Denis Healey's sales had been the best among recent Labour memoirs because so many buyers had liked the beetle-browed sometime Chancellor of the Exchequer so much. The latest Private Eye cover, picking up the theme, shows New...