Tony Blair

"So the family remained in Stellenbosch and in 1963 the Rembrandt Group bought Fleur du Cap estate as a guesthouse. Over the years the visitors’ book of Rupert’s guests who were hosted there came to resemble an international who’s who: Dutch, British and Basotho royalty; heads of government like Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair; cabinet ministers like Caspar Weinberger and Henry Kissinger; business people like David Rockefeller and Edmund de Rothschild; politicians like Sen. Edward Kennedy, and"

"And so the folklorification of the Dyson continued. Carl Gardner, the editor of Design magazine, told me he had heard people using the phrase 'doing a Dyson', to mean designing, engineering, manu- facturing, and marketing one's own invention. There have been ques- tions in the House based on its success (Nigel Jones, Lib-Dem for Cheltenham, in a science budget debate, 2 February 1995. Cf. Hansard, Volume 253, No. 43, p. 1300); Tony Blair has called it an inspiration to young British designers, and even Prince Charles commiserated with the tales of my early woes: 'It's a classic British story,' he said. 'Nobody ever pays attention to the best ideas.'"