Today is as good a day as any to draw attention to my old friend Michael Gove’s new book Celsius 7/7, which appears, from the extracts published in The Times (you can read them here ), to be an uncompromising critique of the Balir government’s approach to Islamism after the 2005 bombings. For instance,

The success of the MCB [Musliam Council of Britain], MAB [Muslim Association of Britain] and their allies in dominating the public debate, shaping public policy and driving the media conversation has been profoundly damaging. A narrow version of Islam has been privileged, theological conservatism reinforced and political radicalism given room to advance. A rising generation has been encouraged by those Muslims most prominent in public life to put their Islamic identity ahead of their British citizenship. That generation will have heard the Muslims most fêted by government pay tribute to terrorist leaders and fundamentalist ideologues as figures worthy of respect. That generation will also have had its sense of grievance nurtured even as its sense of separateness has been reinforced. For Islamists and their allies, it has been a golden prospect.

I repeat that Blair has done great service in his foreign policy on terrorism, but his domestic policy – even after 7/7 — has been profoundly damaging.