"So Husky,
so palpably rehearsed, Tony Blair presented himself as some sort of
restless penitent, likely for the rest of his mortal days to be
self-tormented about Iraq.
Our
former prime minister called a press conference to give his reaction to
the Chilcot Report. Dressed as though for mourning, he stepped towards a
lectern in a drawing room of Admiralty House, Whitehall.
A
check of the voice. A shuttering gaze as his brow furrowed. 'I express
more sorrow, regret and apology than you may ever know or can believe,'
said Blair the victim.
Verily,
a desert boulder, so skilfully wrung, might bleed. Oh, the theatrics,
the dry-mouthed pauses, those Derek Jacobi eyes with their squint at
some distant destiny. Say what you like about Blair but he is a
world-class tragedian, as silken an emoter as ever trod boards on Drury
Lane. "
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