Saturday, August 30, 2003

Guardian: Judgement on Blair after Kelley. A potent analysis in a large frame. Posted here Saturday, August 30, 2003 at 4:05:03 PM       excerpt What the Hutton inquiry has shown so clearly is the nature of the Blair regime. This is in no sense of the word as we have understood it a prime minister with a government. This is a royal court in which Blair is the monarch whose actual role is very difficult to pin down. He has a variety of intimates, who have no official position whatever. And so, we learn from Hoon's performance, that we had a war without the minister of state for defence knowing almost anything about it. ********