Tony Blair: Mass Murderer

Gerald Scarfe, The Sunday Times.

Tony Blair: Judgement!

I think we can all agree that Britain's leading war criminal should be strung up with piano wire upside-down outside the nearest petrol station behind Asda.

Tony Blair: Tragedy

Then there is the sight of the great man dressed in yellow and green underpants in the flat above the Downing Street shop. He greets [Alistair] Campbell with the question: “How many prime ministers have a body like this?”

From The Guardian's review of Broken Vows: Tony Blair, The Tragedy Of Power by Tom Bower.

Clinton & Blair: A Fine Bromance

...a BBC freedom of information request sees the declassification of transcripts of meetings and calls between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, or “bud” and “mate” as they refer to each other.

Despite being heavily redacted, particularly on the Blair side, they illustrate the closeness of the relationship between the two premiers, and it may not shock you to learn that neither is held back by an excess of self-doubt. “The longer you hang around this business,” Clinton rues, “it becomes apparent that very few people make it this far by accident. They don’t just give these jobs away.” ...

Perhaps it’s glib to say in the age of Twitter, where any remotely friendly conversation between people prompts 357 comedians to honk “GET A ROOM”, but for all the speed with which they get down to business, there is often a slightly flirtatious quality to the small talk in the calls between Clinton and Blair. Partly it’s just camaraderie, but maybe in part, too, the famously aphrodisiacal properties of power are so immense that they spill over into even obviously platonic interactions. “You were brilliant,” Blair tells Clinton repeatedly, down the years. “You still have that choirboy look,” Clinton teases. As for how he lost it, that is very much To Be Continued.

Marina Hyde, The Guardian.

Marina rather states the obvious by saying George W Bush was clearly the great love of Blair's (political) life.

PS Nick Duffy at Pink News zooms in on a rather strange 'gay' exchange amongst the redactions.

Tony Blair: Heartless

Steve Bell, The Guardian.

As chosen by Benjamin Butterworth as GT's baby killing GAY ICON!

7/7: Cartoon

Peter Brookes, The Times.

Lady Gaga: Useful Idiot

Lady Gaga got some breathless media praise for singing Imagine at the opening ceremony of the European Games in Azerbaijan.

Weird how that praise only started getting published on June 16th though, given that the opening ceremony actually took place on the 12th.

And doubly weird how all the showbiz news outlets had exactly the same reaction. Hers was a "stunning version", which would "give you chills".

MTV - "Stunning... chills"
Mashable - "Stunning"
Buzzfeed - "Chills"
News Cult "Stunning"
Zimbio - "Stunning"
Eonline - "Chill-inducing"

You'd almost think PRs for Gaga and Azerbaijan were so keen for people to gloss over the human rights issues being raised by the games that they sent out a press release to people they knew would just rehash their words without any question or comment, wouldn't you?

Popbitch.

PS Tony Blair Azerbaijan PR guy.

Tony Blair: Mission Accomplished

The Guardian.

Bring back hanging!

PS Only Israel will miss him - Robert Fisk.

Cartoon: It's Funny Cause It's True

Matt - probably Fagburn's favourite cartoonist - even if/because he draws for the Daily Telegraph.

Also from today's Telegraph.

Blimey!

Tony Blair: 'Standing Joke'

Fagburn has no comment to make on this unconvicted war criminal who would have been hanged at Nuremberg.

Tony Blair: Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children!

Steve Bell in The Guardian.

Well, this went down well, didn't it?

The Guardian list some of his other controversial awards.

Sadly, they forgot Fagburn's favourite one, though...

Update: Save The Children sacked me for being a lesbian, Sandi Toksvig.

Tony Blair: Gay Icon!

Look at all them fit soldiers behind him.
Phwoar!

PS I am an idiot.

Twit Of The Day: Oh God Just Make It Stop!!!

Why Tony Blair is a gay icon, argues @benjaminbutter http://t.co/J6REvJ56Tk pic.twitter.com/f3zKJ3EQPe
— Comment is free (@commentisfree) September 26, 2014

Forgive me, for my eyes kept sliding off the screen, but I can see no declaration of interest here by Miss Butterskips.

You're a leading New Labour hack, are you not?

x

PS And finally... no disrespect to Benjamin Butterworth [Clue's in the name] or 'GT', but as I've said here before, any journalist who uses the term 'gay icon' - sans irony - is a clueless twot.

Full disclosure: Fagburn joined the Labour Party, back when it had this on the back of the membership cards.

But I never got beyond provisional membership, cause the first communication from the local ward was inviting me to a 'summer garden barbecue party'.

There and then I realised the Labour party was fucked, and decided to go back to being a communist.

Tony Blair: Don't Laugh!

Daily Telegraph.

And now let's take a quick look at today's Telegraph cartoon...

GT: Satire!

Asked my mate Darren to mock this up for a larf.

Don't worry, it's not real!

As if anyone would choose this neo-Thatcherite god-bothering cunt and unconvicted war criminal as the greatest gay icon of the last 30 years.

PS You can always trust Independent Voices to come up with the gay wet liberal hackneyed goods.

What's that you say?

The man who wrote that runs the Labour Campaign For LGBT Rights?

I find that very hard to believe.

GT: FS!

I am going outside, I may be some time...

*sound of gunshot*

Tony Blair: We're All Going On A Summer Holiday

From the new Private Eye.

Deftly bringing together the two biggest news stories of our time.

PS Headline Of The Week included to lighten the mood.

Worst Tweet Of All Time: Tony Blair

Let's say #ThanksMichael at @LGBTLabour's event for @mcashmanCBE next Wednesday. http://t.co/6RuNvh56kQ pic.twitter.com/MtssSpC1Oq
— Tony Blair Office (@tonyblairoffice) June 30, 2014

Tony Blair marks the end of Michael Cashman's unglittering career as a toadying Labour MEP.
Which also means his boyfriend, Paul Cottingham, will be out of of a job, too.
A double-blow!

'No, no, thank you, Michael!'

Tony Blair: Is Still A Cunt And Mad As A Lorry

Telegraph.

The Times.

Martin Rowson for The Guardian.

The Independent.

Our boys! One for the army-loving gay media here. 

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Karl Marx.

Iraq: Buggered

Peter Brookes for The Times.

Well done all!

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