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Agent Tony will survive his 24-hour thriller: then it gets hard Politics Mr Blair has no talent for what George Eliot called 'unhistoric acts'

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040118
Author:Matthew d'Ancona

If you are familiar with the superb US television series, 24, you will understand why some of the Prime Minister's allies have suddenly started to nickname him "Agent Tony". In the hit series, which is filmed in "real time" over 24 hours, the intrepid federal agent Jack Bauer overcomes apparently insuperable odds to save the world from all kinds of villainy. Senior Blairites - slightly unhinged, I think, by Friday's headlines about "24 hours to save the Government" - believe that their boss can pull off the same round-the-clock triumph next week, when he faces the knife-edge Commons vote on ...

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