Deep Throat

The latest revelations in the cash for peerages scandal (a secret email system undisclosed to the Police, and such like) have brought home, not for the first time, that there has always been something Nixonian about the Blair Government. I used to think that it was just the extreme anti-intellectualism, exemplified by Hilary Armstrong's famous (and, mercifully, false) claim that everyone from the North was as thick as she, and by Blair's surrounding himself with such utterly undistinguished figures as Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, Carole Caplan, Michael Levy, and so forth.

But I now I realise that, true though this certainly is, there is also the fact that the whole operation is competely free of specific political principle, and is merely a little gang of crooks which has somehow managed to take over the country.

So, of the Blair Cabinet and its associates, which is which member or associate of the Nixon Administration, and why?