Britain is now in an absurd position where to go on air and say a good word about a well-mannered, centrist politician, who won three elections, is to make a daringly transgressive statement
Nick Cohen: Writing from London
From the Australian
By Nick Cohen
EARLIER this month a small and sinister act of intimidation took place in central London. Tony Blair was due to sign copies of his autobiography at the Waterstone’s bookstore in Piccadilly. In the normal way of things, readers would have shaken his hand and bought an autographed copy to show their friends. Blair’s readers could not meet him, however. Fear of violence stopped the book-reading public going to a shop to meet the man many of them had helped elect as prime minister.
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