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Seductive advice from New Labour's spiritual godfather

It was like watching a onetime champion racehorse come out for a midday canter. Bill Clinton barely broke a sweat as he effortlessly adlibbed a speech from a few notes, allowing himself a ramble around the course of global politics, ranging from Machiavelli to the wisdom of African folklore - and still wowing a Labour party audience that has come to embrace him as one of their own. They lapped up his attacks on George Bush, both explicit and implicit - not least his almost throwaway declaration that "we can't kill, jail or occupy all our enemies." When he explained that it was cheaper to give the children of the poorest countries access to clean water or free schooling than it was to fight a war - and that it would do a better job of preventing terrorism - his words were drowned in applause.