One limo, two journeys. politics throws up all sorts of questions: about competing needs and interests, about motives and results, even about the sanity of its practitioners. But Tony Blair's handover of the British premiership to Gordon Brown, a transition long anticipated and heavily choreographed, unexpectedly raised the one kind of question that never finds its way onto a parliamentary order paper: a metaphysical poser. How can power granted by voters, defined by laws, enjoyed and exercised for 10 years slip away so easily, almost as if it had never existed? The question hovered above a grizzled Prime Minister...
Moving Day
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