Blair’s last mission must be to keep America close
By Michael Portillo (THE TIMES, 02/04/06):
Trying to manage a political crisis from 12,000 miles away is a nightmare. Tony Blair, who dislikes flying, must have arrived in Melbourne jetlagged. The time difference is bewildering. Travelling on to New Zealand and Indonesia he will have sacrificed valuable sleeping time to take calls from anxious advisers in London. It is difficult to gauge the mood in Britain unless you can leaf through the press. Reading the stories on the internet is just not the same as seeing the headlines spread out across the breakfast table.
Perhaps on the car journey from his meeting at the presidential palace to an Indonesian school the prime minister was told that the Metropolitan police want to interview him about loans for peerages.… Seguir leyendo »