Mark Steel: Only a conspiracy theorist would believe there was a Murdoch-Blair deal

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sat, 2012-06-02

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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/946">Mark Steel</a></span>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/2543">London</a></div><p>Who's the vindictive bastard who made Tony Blair give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry? </p>
<p>This was heartlessly cruel, to all decent people who have tried to put Blair behind us and get on with our lives. But there he was again, tormenting us, making us feel like someone just coming to terms with their years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and then the bloke who used to electrocute us every morning comes on daytime television, justifying himself and leaving us screaming and dribbling and eating an eight-pack box of Toffee Crisps as all the memories come washing back.</p>
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