Blair hasn’t got the hang of democracy

Rod Liddle says that the Prime Minister’s Christmas jaunt to the Middle East epitomised his confusion about what happens when people who hate you get the chance to say so in elections

As our Prime Minister is someone whose confused political instincts stretch little further than a belief in democracy and freedom of choice, it is heartening to enter a new year knowing that he is, if anything, even more deeply committed to such fundamental — but fragile and tenuous — concepts.

On his annual Christmas trip, in...