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Hours of fun to be had with the Bush/Blair conversation, obviously. It just keeps on giving. ( Transcript here for when all the news links finally die )

But right now my favourite thing is the suggestion that the microphone was switched on by none other than the KGB's own dissident-imprisoning kiddie-nuzzling warrior monk, Vladimir Putin.

"... at the moment the sound comes on, Vladimir Putin is sat smiling wryly at his seat; you can't see his hands, but the red light on his microphone lights up, indicating that it was the source of the recording"