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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | May 13, 1996 issue

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Whenever the author runs into Jonathan Powell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief of staff, they both spend a moment or two on matters brotherly. Jonathan's brother was chief of staff to Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. So deep is their mutual distaste that Jonathan will not even pronounce the family name in the same way, his brother prefers the affected stress of Pole, as does the great but reactionary novelist Anthony Powell, and as do various other sprigs and offshoots of the stricken Welsh nobility. Author last had this conversation at a high-octane cocktail party for Blair, held at the Blumenthal home in Washington during the former's semi-state visit in the second week of April.

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PRIME ministers -- Great Britain; COCKTAIL parties; BLAIR, Tony, 1953-; POWELL, Jonathan; VISITS of state; GREAT Britain
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