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For me, he's the only recent politician I've encountered who comes across as truly smart.
His book The Places In-between, a sort of history of tribal Afghanistan as he travels through it is absolutely fantastic. His earlier book on Iraq is equally good. Both demonstrate a level of intelligence I've not seen from any currently active politician. The fact he teaches politics at Yale and handled some really difficult diplomatic assignments with aplomb probably demonstrates that he's not thick.
Anyway, he's a former Tory with the voting record of a former Tory so he's still a cunt, I've just never heard anybody suggest that he thinks he's smarter than he really is until this thread.