Simon Jenkins writes:

Nothing will prevent those at the top forming often bitter rivalries. Any government is vulnerable to them; witness the feud between Rumsfeld and Powell in the preliminaries to the war in Iraq, a feud that might, for the good of millions, have been better resolved on Putney Heath. Since such antagonism in the corridors of power will never be eradicated, Hunt performs a service in rooting it deep in the processes of government and thus helping us understand what can otherwise seem merely the petty jealousies of foolish men.

(LRB 18 December 2008)

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