Blair's Legacy & The Observer

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

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Good to see Roger Alton, the editor of the Observer, stick to his guns on Tony Blair, with a full page leader in yesterday's paper which concluded that "after 10 years Blair has made Britain a better place". The lemming-like concessus on the prime minister around the kitchen tables of London's ciabatta-eating classes is that Blair is nothing more than a venal, peerage-flogging, Bee Gee-loving war-mongerer etc. But the Obs's leader argues that - the elephant in the room - Iraq, aside, the PM has much to be proud of...I won't list it all here, but it dovetails perfectly with what Alton said when I talked to him for the Indy in January '06, albeit in rather less ripe language. 'Blair is fucking good,' he declared then. 'I think the old chatterers will realise what a big loss he really is when he finally goes.' That, of course, is open to question. But it's hard not to admire Alton for having the cajones to stick his neck out once again... especially when you recall his decision to give the Observer's backing to the Iraq war and how it outraged the green tea-sipping firebrands of north and east London.

Posted by James Silver - On Tuesday, May 01, 2007

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