Of savants and war criminals
Francis Sedgemore, Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 10:37 UTC
Former British prime minister and current unroyal mint Tony Blair is someone I find quite maddening. Blair may be an arrogant, conceited shit, but at the same time I have a grudging respect for him. Which is more than I can say for his immediate successor.
Feed the writer! 
Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 19:57 UTC
I am almost sure he is not all that conceited, while arrogance is a mandatory requirement of a successful politico. What I am sure about is that all you Brits will wish he was back. Soon, too.
Wednesday 1 September 2010 at 21:01 UTC
Steady on, old chap!
Blair has nothing left to offer, and much as non-Brits might like to see him back in power, you cannot run a state with 60 million citizens on foreign policy alone.
New Labour is dead.
Thursday 2 September 2010 at 08:24 UTC
Well, in fact, I didn’t mean foreign policy at all (believe it or not). I was thinking about that pretty big bag of trouble (and wind) you have for a PM today…
And about his party and all that… I don’t have to draw the picture for you, I guess. Besides, I am too bad at drawing.
Thursday 2 September 2010 at 08:59 UTC
I’ve no illusions about the bag of wind currently ensconced in Downing Street, or his dysfunctional, Liberal-aided government. But the New Labour project is well and truly dead. We may be in a global economic recession, but the peculiarly British variant of this is New Labour’s doing.
Friday 10 September 2010 at 00:49 UTC
[...] Less than a month after one bunch of farty malcontents took to the letters page of the Groan to voice their grave disapproval of Blair’s public memoir-flogging, yet another group of culturati have used the same organ to have a pop at the most impressive British prime minister in decades, and with stunning originality and impeccable legal authority damn the man as a “war criminal”. [...]