Just back from a lunch organized by the Manhattan Institute where the guest speaker was “Theodore Dalrymple” . His topic? Tony Blair’s legacy. Dr. Dalrymple’s talk was, needless to say, terrific. The main focus was Blair’s domestic policy and I think it’s fair to say that the good doctor served up a bracing dose of disillusion to any of those still prepared to believe, against all the available evidence, that Blair has been anything other than a disaster for Britain. As for Blair’s personality, Dr. Dalrymple, a psychiatrist, offered up the diagnosis that Blair suffered from “delusions of honesty”. Indeed he does.