Which two groups of people hate Tony Blair the most? Journalists and the culturati. So if Blair has had a rough ride in the past week (that Fern Britton interview, it was obviously Blair "preparing the ground" for his appearance at the Chilcot inquiry; media manipulation, obviously; good thing the media didn't fall for it), just wait until the new year.

The worlds of journalism and culture converge, probably in February, with Blair's evidence to the Iraq Inquiry and the premiere in Berlin of The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski's film of Robert Harris's novel, starring Blair (right).

I've commented on Harris's double standard here, unable to distinguish between someone who has admitted a crime and someone Harris thinks ought to be guilty of one. (Apparently, what Blair really did wrong in Harris's eyes, according to this interview in Frankfurter Rundschau translated by Julie, was to fail to introduce the euro.)

Just two random recent examples of how making films gives people special authority to pronounce on how everyone is innocent until proved Tony Blair. James Cameron says that Avatar is an attempt to open people's eyes to why America "went down a path that cost several hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives". (That assertion is not soundly based.) And Dame Judi Dench is already angry about the Chilcot inquiry: