There is a famous grey photograph of Winston Churchill that has come to exemplify what is required of a war leader. He surveys the rubble of wartime London; grim, bowler-hatted, lonely in command. The image hovers obscurely in the imagination of every British prime minister. It was surely in Tony Blair's on his way to Ground Zero in New York, a city whose mayor had already invoked the spirit of the London blitz.
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