Andrew, I’ve been reading your posts about Blair for years. If I misunderstood the general direction of your remarks, which seemed to me to be that Blair has been stripping the British of their rights and freedoms in a horrifyingly statist direction, then I apologize. But then I remember that I scored very well on reading comprehension in grammar school, so maybe you should choose your words more carefully in the future if you don’t want to give the impression you hold untenable views. Like, for example, the fact that your “respected” Matthew Parris opposed the war in Afghanistan. I will acknowledge that such a view would win respect from Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore. But, I would hope, not from you.