Bliar - his worshippers and those with a moral compass. [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

From Ephraim Hardcastle's column in today's (UK) Daily Mail, two wry snippets - one uproariously amusing. (Bear in mind that being a right-wing rag, even when critical, the Mail is wont to confuse the far right in the US with the American people, as they do their counterparts in the UK). They are particularly incensed with Bliar, however, because he so successfully and mendaciously stole their clothes. Nice to see internecine warfare among the far right.

"Law professor Philippe Sands of University College, London, says there's 'real disdain' in his circle for the way Tony Blair is worshipped in America. 'When there was talk about some sort of Tony Blair Institute for International Relations at the London School of Economics, people just killed it, because it was such a joke,' says Sands, adding: 'As someone said to me, it would have been like the Saddam Hussein Institute for Human Rights.'"

Then, in a paragraph below it, Hardcastle adds:

A propos of Tony Blair, who needed four bodyguards while shopping at Armani in London before Christmas, why hasn't he been seen in blood-soaked Gaza, where, as the Middle-East envoy for the UN, EU, US and Russia, he is supposed to be brokering a peace settlement? Perhaps he didn't want to miss Armani's 50 percent-off bargains.