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Posted on 03/09/2008 12:17:31 PM PDT by JLS
A novelist's revenge on Tony Blair
In 'The Ghost,' a (familiar) recently retired British PM is rumoured to be a CIA agent
MARK STEYN | March 6, 2008 |
If ever there was a solid Tony Blair voting bloc it was surely the massed ranks of British novelists. They loathed Thatcher ("Mrs. Torture," as the pre-fatwa Salman Rushdie used to call her), yet "old Labour," with its knuckle-dragging union bosses and old-school class warfare, wasn't entirely their bag, either. Solution: Tony Blair's Third Way. He was "New Labour," just like Bill Clinton was New Democrat. It was all the rage for a while: perhaps even now in some cave or other Mullah Omar is proposing to relaunch himself as New Taliban.
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I did a search and did not find this book review by Steyn so perhaps you want to ping your list.
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Tony Blair starts making sense? The US’ fault.
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