Well they're both media tarts and, it's pretty inescapable, Belle comes out on top. Blair appeared in front of the Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq and, according to most of the political hacks, came away unscathed because, after a nervous start, he proceeded to entrap the panel of pretty useless inquisitors in his own view of events, and his bizarre theocratic conviction that a terrorist strike on one of our allies meant a declaration of war against everybody on civilised terms with, in the case of 9/11, the United States. So why haven't there been terrorist atrocities in France and Germany? Or Canada or Poland? It's complete rubbish, Blair is a bigger threat to peace in the Middle East than Iran will ever be. And the public, who we can trust, seem less impressed by his self-serving performance than the so-called professionals, the writers and broadcasters. As for Dr Brooke Magnanti, the author of Belle de Jour, she may or may not have undertaken all these sexual gymnastics in the course of bumping up her student grant. But, whether or not she did, she's proved adept at promoting whatever it was in the media marketplace. And the end result is entertainment for the masses with not many dead. So it's Dr Brooke for president of the European Union, or whatever, and Blair consigned to well-earned oblivion.