The Guardian provides a platform to the Soviet agent Richard Gott to share with us his view that

Like Chamberlain, he [Tony Blair] is an arrogant and God-fuelled appeaser, the unseemly ally of an unbridled country that presents a global threat similar to Germany in the 1930s.

Instead of seeking a grand alliance to confront this new danger - "a coalition of the unwilling" that would include the Europeans, the Russians and the Chinese - Blair has sided with the evil empire. He has taken up a role as its principal cheerleader, obliging Britain to become a participant in its wars of aggression.

Given Gott's history of working on behalf of one of the vilest regimes in history and of betraying his colleagues and his country in the process, it should come as no surprise that he regards the US as an 'evil empire'. It did, after all, destroy his favoured Soviet empire, and has now destroyed another dictatorial regime in Iraq.

I've long thought it a great pity that we couldn't have Stalin's opinion of the Iraq war. At least we now know what one of his regime's agents thinks.