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In spite of which, the talk of the best salons is of Stephen Bloody Fry as the new Chancellor.

As someone so distinguished that it makes one's head hurt put it to me, "Tony Blair would be resigning issue for everyone," although Blair probably wants it; no doubt some appropriately unaccredited degree mill on another shore can be found for him instead. In the words of another of the great and good, "Blair has probably disqualified himself by lobbying for it," and that is doubtless perfectly true, since no one who did not already know it would ever guess that he was Fettes, Oxford and the Bar.

But even so, Stephen Fry? Come on. We must be able to come up with someone, anyone, better than that.