HOW to make friends and influence people the Blair way! Is Blairs love of Bush and his administration, deliberately contrived, to ensure the total success of his memoirs, and of Cheries (and possibly his, too) tour of speeches, when they retire, from their disastrous stay in 10 Downing Street. Does this explain, his reluctance, not to condemn Israel of its Lebanese and Palestine actions and bullying? Israel has also outstanding United Nations resolutions to obey, going back to the 1960's. Why does Blair conveniently forget these but reminds every other country, like Iraq, to abide by theirs?

DOUGLAS J WATHEN, Rushford, Salford Priors.