God and Blair at Yale

mike

No matter if you truly believe you did right, the death and destruction you were part of must visit in the wee small hours. I would be justifying myself at all times and on all forums, and praying that my God did exist and understood I did what I thought was best."To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there's the rub."

salieri

What is the 'Tony Blair Faith', please? I thought we had finally ended it in this country.

Henry Rogers

I'm sure the students will see through him even if the faculty don't.

Austin Barry

Tony does God, Cherie does Mammon. They both do hypocrisy.

R. C. Wyer

Most of our ancestors would be puzzled indeed that a Prime Minister actually believing in God is such an issue. It is quite frightening just how aggressively secular many of us have become - it marks a huge break with our traditions and should be worrisome to any genuine conservative.

Verity

Mike writes: "To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there's the rub." Whatever. R C Wyer - We don't know that we have a prime minister who believes in God, rather than the wee kirk in the wee toon his family basically owns. I no longer capitalise 'prime minster' by the way, but that's just me.

adrian drummond

To R.C. Wyer: I don't think that it is puzzling that a PM could believe in God. What is puzzling is how God could have believed in TB.

Roy

Right or wrong I've always thought in my deepest wanderings that people with a conviction of religious beliefs are somehow kinky.

RW

Surely the Tony Blair Faith Foundation is an ego-trip too far even for this man's insatiable self-publicising self-belief. Will he be presenting himself as the new Messiah? Believe on me, saith the Lord Tone, and ye shall be saved. Better look out, God, you've got competition.

mike

Verity, I did not actually write "To sleep, perchance to dream- ay, there's the rub." I merely quoted from a play by a guy called William Shakespeare. Your bit about no longer capitalising prime minister was incredibly interesting. Hope you will be posting incredibly interesting bits of that quality more often and hopefully on another blog.

David Parker

Perhaps Blair will offer God a seat on his World Government front bench?

Verity

Mike, thanks for pointing out that you do not share Shakespeare's genius and you are right; I should have written "Mike quotes Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the English playwright late of Stratford-upon-Avon and London". My noting that I don't capitalise prime minister any more was just an indication of how Blair has diminished the office. You are a well-known troll and it is a shame that you are now capering and gurning over here, but that's life. Roy writes: "Right or wrong I've always thought in my deepest wanderings that people with a conviction of religious beliefs are somehow kinky." Spelunker, are you? Funny how any mention of God brings out an infestation of militant atheists all affecting to be distanced and rational.

Perry

Yuk!!!

B Clarke

An 'oxymoron' if ever there was one. Blair lectures at Yale! Wow! What will his theme be? How to obfuscate, spin and tell tall tales of daring do! Maybe a Phd in 'Barnum & Bailey Bunco Artistry'. A politcal snakeoil salesman if there ever was one. Then there that 'Blair Foundation' to be imposed on some UK university. Oh dear!

B Grahame

'Blair doesnt do God! Maybe, God doesnt do 'Blair'

verity

B Grahame - Thanks for that! B Clarke - I always thought of Blair as a salesman on the sales floor of, say, a Jaguar showroom in LA. The David- Niven-playing-a-WWII wing-commander with clipped accent, the "charming" condescension and light, knowing jokes to indicate to the billionaire customer that Tony regards him as an equal ... On the other hand, we see Tony visiting the troops in Iraq, and Tony walking across the desert with his arms by his sides held slightly out in an abnormal pose, as a fantasy Western gunslinger, ready to draw AT ANY SECOND! The man's a joke. Also he's the man who outlawed self-defence by gun or anything else in Britain. Some of us haven't given up on the black candles.

Roy

Yes, a veritable cavern of truths, free from all infectious airs and noble masquerades.

Verity

I am not sure how much in charge blair was during his premiership. Campbell was the puppetmaster, blair the empty doll. This is why he can't do any of the jobs he's been given. All he can do is the actor bit, giving after lunch and after dinner talks. He can't do an a job in which he has to plan things and execute things. Hasn't everyone else - except the Americans, who keep offering him jobs - noticed this? Blair isn't very bright.