It simply beggars belief that there are some in the British media who still take Tony Blair even vaguely seriously. On Friday, we were treated to two ‘exclusives’ featuring Blair on the front pages of The Times and the the Daily Mirror. All this in the same week that we learned that Blair had agreed to become a ‘godfather’ to a child of the Murdoch Empire’s own ‘Godfather’, Rupert Murdoch, and that he had helped the murderous Saif al Islam with his exam revision. Quite how both newspaper managed to keep proverbial straight faces while printing homilies from the man who took Britain into an illegal and bloody war, is anyone’s guess. Nonetheless they managed to do so, because this is Britain, a parochial and increasingly backward country. Continue reading →