Imagine that your deepest fears and darkest imaginings had a habit of turning up on the front pages of the newspapers. Imagine you suspected that one of your inner circle of friends had turned into a deadly enemy and you could not find the turncoat. This is pretty much the waking nightmare that Tony Blair finds himself in. In recent months a steady stream of embarrassing leaks has come out of central government. This week the political damage reached a new level, with the emergence of the two most sensitive memoranda yet. The first was a document written by Mr Blair himself, back in April, discussing political strategy in embarrassingly frank terms. The second was a dark assessment of the political situation from Philip Gould, the prime minister's pollster.
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