twat

I've said it before and I'll say it again, but just so you know for sure...

Tony Blair is a twat.

A quote:

"Faith is part of our future, and faith and the values it brings with it are an essential part of making globalisation work."

If making globalisation work means bombing the World Trade Center in the name of Islam, or invading Lebabon in the name of Judaism, or turning the USA into a fascist state in the name of 'Christian family values', he's dead right. Except he's actually just Right (of centre). And it increasingly looks like we're dead.

Richard Dawkins is right (small 'r'), Tony Blair is hopelessly wrong. Religion is one of the greatest dangers we face in the 21st century, along with climate change and multinational corporate power. The (un)holy triumvirate, if you will. Dawkins goes OTT sometimes in saying that anyone with a religious belief is a dangerous imbecile - that's clearly B.S. - but it's a damn sight closer to the truth than Blair's vision of reality. And in particular, given that the Catholic church is one of the worst exemplars of Stalinist, Orwellian thought-tyranny in the religious pantheon, Blair's recent conversion to Rome is a clear sign he is mentally unhinged.

All the same, I'm kind of relieved about Blair's reemergence as a religious zealot as it at least provides some kind of respite from reading how badly Gordon Brown is doing in the polls. And reminds us that whatever Brown's faults, compared with Tuberculosis Blair Gordon is God. If that's not too religious an expression.