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Chris Brooke will probably enjoy this piece of news about Paul "The Thinker" Richards from today's Guardian Backbencher:

Word reaches the Backbencher of an ambitious new biographical project from Paul "The Thinker" Richards, the author of a pocketbook of Blairite wisdom (Tony Blair In His Own Words) which the Backbencher was disappointed not to find waiting in the drawer of her bedside table in Brighton this week. Now she hears that Paul is tackling a biography of Alan Milburn - not to mention tutoring a course at Labour's new Academy of Political Thought. (Highlights include "values versus policies", "socialist responses to war, poverty and globalisation", and "Labour's broad church": course fees and dates have yet to be announced.) Will the strategist himself authorise this brave new work? Will it be a multi-volume effort in the style of the LBJ biography ("Alan: The Postal Years")? There are rumours it will be titled "Days of Hope", but the Backbencher needs to talk to Paul to refute them.