Wednesday 18 December 2013  Irony really is dead when this hawk
is a peace envoy  Tony Blair  Tony Blair keeps popping back to
annoy us, doesn't he? Every few months, just as you think he's
slid into history, he emerges getting paid a million pounds for
something, like brokering an arms deal with Josef Fritzl and you
realise we'll never be rid of him.  At least, in the past,
leaders did their damage, then disappeared, but he'll never go.
It's like finding out the next leader of the UN will be General
Franco or that Emperor Hirohito is to be a judge on X Factor.  A
recent Channel 4 Dispatches programme concerned one of Blair's
business dealings, but they needn't have bothered with the
investigative bits.  It could just have gone, "Tony Blair is
paid £2m a year by JP Morgan bank" and any reasonable person
would shout "Oh, you dirty pig. How did you pull that off?"
while the rest of the hour was adverts.  Because you might ask
why the bank feels he's worth this salary. It's possible it's
because he's really good