{"id":1017,"date":"2006-01-06T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/113654989383749455\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T12:13:00","slug":"113654989383749455","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/113654989383749455\/","title":{"rendered":"113654989383749455"},"content":{"rendered":"
Old friends remember Tony Blair<\/a>:<\/p>\n
  • “Blair’s tendency was to bend the rules, but rarely break them… Instead, he enjoyed the game of infuriating the masters and escaping punishment.”<\/li>\n
  • “He did have this disarming ability to never look crestfallen, so he would never look as if he’d been defeated. And he became … a sort of slightly aged Artful Dodger – getting through, getting by, getting out of pretty well all situations.”<\/li>\n
  • “Blair as we knew him absolutely modelled himself on Mick Jagger”<\/li>\n
  • “He’s a sponge”<\/li>\n
  • “He is more difficult to define and to feel you understand than any other person I’ve ever met. He reminds me frequently of a statement made by EM Forster about Joseph Conrad’s novels: that inside the secret casket of Conrad’s genius there lies not a jewel but a vapour. Tony Blair is like a vapour, you can’t pin him down, put him on a piece of green baize and look at him and say, ‘That is Tony Blair.'”<\/li>\n

    Sounds charming, eh?<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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