Perhaps some congratulations to Rebecca Wade at the Sun this morning who got an exclusive interview with George Bush who muses on the special relationship with Tony Blair.

Amongst the Gems

"Mr Bush said Mr Blair is blessed with a world-class ability to communicate. He went on: “Tony’s great skill, and I wish I had it, is that he’s very articulate.
“I wish I was a better speaker. This guy can really . . . he can talk."

And

"I’ve heard he’s been called Bush’s poodle. He’s bigger than that. This is just background noise, a distraction from big things.
We’re working together to achieve global peace in the face of enormous danger.
This kind of thing is just silly ridicule and that’s how I treat it.
Somehow our relationship has been seen as Bush saying to Blair ‘Jump’ and Blair saying, ‘How high?’ But that’s just not the way it works. It’s a relationship where we say we’re both going to jump together."