"UK diplomats launch mass attack on Blair policy" was the title covering the letter published by 52 former British ambassadors criticising the Prime Minister's policy in Iraq and alleged subservience to the United States. Other jubilant headlines proclaimed this as the "Revolt of the Establishment". The fact that the letter was not signed by a couple of hundred other former ambassadors, including this one, was thought scarcely worthy of mention. This was because most of us have an allergy to acting as if we were members of a trade union. For that and other reasons, we have never been tempted...