The Gospel according to Blair

The Gospel according to Blair

At the beginning of the new Tony Blair documentary on Channel 4, Jeremy Corbyn describes its subject as a “man in denial”. This might seem rich coming from the person also known as Magic Grandpa — but as I watched I began to think he had a point. Any viewer hoping for honest introspection will be disappointed. These days Tony Blair seems to have all the expansive openness of Keir Starmer. It isn’t just his stubborn refusal to accept that he made…