Tony Blair’s launch party for his book will take place in conditions of secrecy and concealment, because otherwise people will show up and tell the poor man what a monster he is.
The man who recently said that the Freedom of Information Act was a mistake, who has been accused of presiding over the politicisation of the intelligence services, whose government sought to bring to British courts evidence known to have been extracted through torture, who sought to keep secret the ‘lamentable‘ decision-making process by which we were taken to war in Iraq, who appears to have concealed the legal advice which told him it was not a legal war…
He will have to have his party in secret, too. Because otherwise, mean people may show up and throw things.
Behold! A miracle! My liberal bleeding heart has healed. For today, anyway.
That’s the full stop at the end of the first draft of the new book.