Get out the fishnets, Bill’s in town

Tony Blair's valedictory address to the Labour conference wasn't the only hot political ticket in Britain yesterday. Two hours later, Bill Clinton wowed 3,000 fans at the Royal Albert Hall with a talk about his political legacy.

The 60-year-old former President delivered an all-encompassing 50-minute speech pretty much promising to save the world, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A in which he was at his folksiest, down-home best. To his audience of well-fed suits, shiny-eyed student idealists and pulchritudinous political types, he could do no wrong.

The event, one of around 50 Bill makes in a year (at a reported £100,000 a pop), was just another stop on his seemingly endless world tour. In July, he was in South Africa, celebrating Nelson Mandela's 88th birthday. Last week he was at the K Club in Ireland with fellow former

If it’s Tuesday, it must be London. seth jacobson catches Clinton on his never- ending world tour

Prez George Bush Snr to watch the US Ryder Cup team getting thrashed by Woosnam and Co. Today he'll be charming the Labour masses from the trees up in Manchester.

He was all over US TV last week, preaching to the converted on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Even his forthright rebuttal on Fox TV of claims he had let Osama bin Laden off the hook while in the Oval Office lost him no friends.

With his 60th birthday bash still to come at the Beacon Theatre in New York next month - where the Rolling Stones are booked to play - it's clear Bubba's at his highest point since his 1996 re-election. Little wonder he pulled a crowd more suited to a fashion show last night.

Among the jazz standards playing before the speech began was Peggy Lee's Fever, an eminently suitable choice given the effect that a night with Bill was having on the large

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