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National security adviser has become most influential foreign policy figure in governmentIn his book about working as Tony Blair’s chief of staff in No 10, Jonathan Powell warned of the danger in leaders surrounding themselves with flatterers and yes-men.He quoted the Italian philosopher of power, Niccolò Machiavelli, on how it was “one error into which princes … are apt to fall” because “men take such pleasure in their own concerns, and so deceive themselves with regard to them”. Continue reading...