“Just hear what Hugo has to say and say how very interesting, and don’t reply.” Tony Blair’s advice to David Miliband on how to deal with the sage of The Guardian, as mischievously reported to Hugo Young by Miliband in 1998. To be fair, Miliband, who was then Blair’s head of policy, was talking only about Labour’s policy on electoral reform, then at a delicate phase. But it is a theme too fitting to resist.