Yet anyone who thinks that Miss Bhutto's troubles are over, enabling her to fly back to Pakistan, there to be welcomed by rousing crowds that will sweep her to power, should think again.
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Mr Hennessy is skilled at detecting great movements in the tectonic plates of politics and diplomacy, and his account of the sweep of a decade in which Britain ceased to be a great power is compelling.