BLAIR: DROWNING, NOT WAVING

Watching Tony Blair’s post-Chilcot release press conference, with him stood in front of a sickly yellow flock wallpaper backdrop is a disturbing yet fascinating experience. In the footage, Blair clings to the wreckage of his torpedoed psyche, a man adrift, a man slowly drowning in the swirling sea of his own delusions. He grasps at his opinions which are, as ever, hopelessly at odds with the facts surrounding the fomentation and instigation of the war on Iraq. One is reminded of that other murderous character, Macbeth: “I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, […]

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