Not about the leader
The Editor suggests that “you won’t be able to resist joining in with Adonis’s game of leadership Top Trumps” (“The political is personal”, October). But life is too short to play games with Andrew Adonis. The view that a leader can succeed as a sole political trader is a thinly disguised version of the Great Man theory of history, resting on a personality cult version of politics. This served Adonis well in rising through the corridors of power, but his own star began to wane when his patrons, Blair and Brown, started to lose the plot.