THE LAST DITCH
Link: Catherine Tate hails Blair’s comic skills | Breaking News | News | Telegraph.
So, according to Catherine Tate, Tony Blair is
"one of the finest comic actors of his generation"
That certainly explains quite a lot, but doesn’t it also mean we have been taking him a bit too seriously for the last 10 years?
I for one never took him seriously. However, I am still not sure whether or not that was a wise thing to do. There are dangers in underestimating him; for example, who would have thought that this seemingly nice, mild-mannered man would launch such an assault on our rights and freedoms? On the other hand, one wonders sometimes whether such a man with little or no knowledge of history, and very little understanding of society, would be deserving even of a footnote when the books come to be written.
Some days the ‘demon eyes’ seem appropriate; other days I see nothing of Blair than his ridiculous caricature in the Simpsons a few years ago.
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He seems to me to be a “man of many faces” – not that he has a personality disorder. He has the ability to adopt a guise AND to believe in it totally , for as long as he needs to; he promptly forgets each absolutely, as he is faced with changing situations….
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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