@FT: Tony Blair’s self-presentation as victim rings hollow, but a perfect fit for this newspaper!

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I won’t waste The Readers time, here are the final two paragraphs of this Financial Times ‘interview/apologetic’ for Blair. Not to forget that Mrs. Thatcher called Blair her greatest accomplishment. A question arises as too whether Blair, was the political nexus of the Corbyn Defamation? from within The New Labour cadre, that was an unrelenting series of lies, repeated in respectable ‘bourgeois journalism’: that monument to mendacity has been exposed, as what its was and is, Lies from beginning to end. Mr. Blair can’t resist donning the mantle of Victimhood!

Now aged 70, does Blair feel aggrieved that his reputation was trashed for so many years by people in his own party? “It didn’t hurt me personally,” he said. “But it irritated the hell out of me because it meant the Tories could just govern the country.”

Referring to Corbyn, he added: “We didn’t have a credible Labour leader. That’s what gave us Brexit.” Asked if he will help Starmer in the forthcoming election campaign, Blair smiles: “I’ll help in any way I can, but he will want to be his own person.”

https://www.ft.com/content/c39a9576-a8fb-416c-ad94-ba90b1e16a0e

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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