A self-styled policy guru and manic reader, Rove is as comfortable weighing in on trade-promotion authority as he is discussing the electoral map.

And then let's have a three-day seminar in Aspen with foreign policy gurus to discuss it.

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's policy guru, commissioned a report on employment law which has been rejected by Nick Clegg.

Steve Hilton, David Cameron's policy guru who is a champion of deregulation, commissioned the report because he believes that overly restrictive employment laws are holding back Britain's economic growth.

Mr Blair's foreign policy guru was Robert Cooper, a former diplomat who argued that a new form of imperialism was needed to stop failed states spiralling out of control.

Congressional leaders and foreign policy gurus are also jumping on the now fashionable big-bucks, big-plan bandwagon.

The mock-oracular tone, the peremptory index finger, the rumbling admonition issued from on high: it was all high theater, James's way of mocking his own intellectual authority as foreign policy guru.

ROBERT B. REICH, the Democratic policy guru and friend of organized labor, entered enemy territory this week with a peace proposal of sorts.

These and other amazing changes erupt in world politics, and not one of America's foreign policy gurus comes within a country mile of predicting them.

Other Economic Worries Aside from all the confusion emanating from lawmakers and policy gurus 10 years ago, serious economic dislocations were developing at home and abroad.