Mick Hartley

A forthcoming title, perhaps, from Jonathan Powell. He should have enough material, considering how often he visits the place.

Is life so dull, after the drama of the Blair years when he was Chief of Staff from 1997 to 2007, that he's reduced to these constant self-promoting trips to North Korea? No doubt they treat him with the respect he clearly feel he deserves, with the guarantee of a mention in the North Korean media as a man of importance, instead of the "Director and Founder and Founder" of InterMediate – a forgotten man in an organisation that no one's heard of.

Here he is again, featured in the official regime mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun, in an article with the provocative title European Politicians Visit Various Places:

A delegation of politicians from various political parties in Europe led by Jonathan Powell of the British Labor Party, former Downing Street Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Tony Blair, visited the Sci-Tech Complex.

It went round e-reading room, applied sci-tech hall and other parts of the complex.

It also toured the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory and the Masikryong Ski Resort.

Maybe he's planning to defect.