Blair’s memoir….a tough choice resolved

This blog notes with mixed feelings that Tony Blair’s  eagerly awaited (it says here) memoir, A Journeyman: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bush Family, is rocketing up the Amazon best seller list.

This happy event is due in no small part to St Teflon’s pledge to donate all royalties from the book, and his £4.6 million advance, to the Royal British Legion for construction of a sports centre for veterans, an act which, were it not for the persistent suspicion that the former Prime Minister is attempting to salve his conscience, and take what he doubtless considers his rightful place in the pantheon of great British Prime Ministers, would be entirely laudable.

The temptation to forget the lies, the shackling of Parliament, the bonfire of the liberties and the narcissism, along with a genuine curiosity as to how Blair will try to airbrush his political legacy is almost overwhelming, but then….

You almost had us there, Tony.

Get Labour Out, has come up with a rather elegant solution to this conundrum. Instead of buying the book, donate your £12.50 directly to the Legion.

Don’t tempt me….

Old Holborn, Tory Bear, forelock duly tugged, gentlemen.

In the end they will destroy themselves

STRONGEST POSSIBLE CONTENT WARNING! NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

Not that I imagine that this is by any means an isolated incident, but it is evidence of something free thinkers have long known to be self-evident, namely that the warped logic of the fanatical political extremist eventually leads him to his own self-destruction.

Thanks to the estimable Charles Crawford for flagging this.

Too soon, Charlie, too soon

A singular man and a political maverick.

We are poorer for his passing.

After the Soviets left, Charlie kept fighting for the Afghan people and warned against abandoning that traumatised country to its fate — a warning we should have heeded then, and should remember today.

Quite.

New cash crop could be solution to Afghanistan

It seems the Obama administration will leave no stone unturned (or should that be no turn unstoned?) in the search for a fix in Afghanistan.

Obama team tries to hash out new plan for Afghanistan

Feelin' groovy

An interesting alternative to smacking down the Taliban, I suppose.

Badoom….tish!