This entry was posted on
Friday, June 29th, 2007 at
2:26 pm and is filed
under Tony ‘King Blair.

A unexpected post-mortem edition of The Friday Thing just arrived in my Inbox, and what a pleasant surprise it was.

Right there alongside a plug for Goodbye, Tony Blair was an excellent summary of Blair’s legacy…

“Sadly, all of the biographers are agreed that it doesn’t matter how hard you try and spin it, Blair’s legacy will forever hinge upon one thing and one thing only: Iraq. Indeed, Iraq is to Tony Blair very much what those 13 murdered women are to Peter Sutcliffe.”

… and a heart-melting moment reminding me of the many intelligent conversations I have enjoyed with those batting for Blair:

(A REMINDER: it often pays to be gentle with these people… a lot of them simply can’t handle a broken bottle in the rectum without a little foreplay.)