The response from critics to former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s literary efforts has been on the absolute zero side of lukewarm.
Mr. Blair is certainly no Terry Pratchett. In fact he has a long way to go before he can be ranked alongside Jeffery Archer.
There are good reasons though for this verbal ineptitude as will be revealed in a book out this week. Former Downing Street aide Jonathan Powell will reveal in his memoir that “Blair used to get up at 4 a.m. and write in his underpants.

Were people so in awe of the former Prime Minister they dared no tell him it was much easier to write in a notebook?