So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that
money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private
dealings of this very
public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes
with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?