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Article: Blair loads the dice, but he isn't winning...
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2004
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Byline: ANDREW ALEXANDER
The Greeks, inevitably, had a word for it - hubris, or overweening pride which leads naturally to nemesis.
Lord Butler of Brockwell is not just an insider, but an insiders' insider.
His remarkable team includes former Chief Whip Ann Taylor, former Defence Chief Lord Inge, former Tory Minister Michael Mates and former civil servant Sir John Chilcott.
I know nothing of Chilcott.
But the rest give me a definite sinking feeling.
Colonel Mates, in particular, is so far down my list of likely fearless and probing interrogators as to be somewhere on the next page.