Disturbing thoughts on "The Trial of Tony Blair"

With Mr Blair due to step down in the next six months or so it is now open season for vilifying and lampooning our Labour Prime Minister. Of course this sort of nastiness can always be expected from the likes of the Mail and the Express. But in these times the knife-twisting is coming predominately from those who are supposed to be at the progressive end of the political spectrum.

Last week saw two BBC dramas, a "War Crimes" episode of Judge John Deed and Sue Townsend's radio play, Adrian Mole and the Blair-Mole Project, in which Tony Blair was implicitly and explicitly cast as the villain of the piece (so much for Aunty's requisite impartiality on these matters!). Tonight on More4 (to be repeated on Channel 4 on Thursday) the laceration continues with Alistair Beaton's well-trailed satire The Trial of Tony Blair. A theatre play on the same theme is to follow.

All this abuse directed at one man reminds me of George Orwell's 1984 where Big Brother's Ministry of Truth spends its time fabricating stories to discredit the arch-enemy of the people, Goldstein. Except that the roles have been insidiously reversed. It is now the leader, Tony Blair, who is the object of the national hate campaign, with the liberal-left intelligentsia playing the part of Big Brother and our "high-minded" media filling in for the Ministry of Truth.

As the esteemed Bard might have put it, time is out of joint and there's something really rotten in the state of our affairs.

To discover the facts about the fiction in Alistair Beaton's work click on here

Comments

[el tom]

No comments allowed then?

Typical.

You silly metropolitan liberals.

[Prodip Chaudhury]

Hi Alistair
If you remember me can you please write to me! I am in Atlanta.