Yet as he goes, it seems to me that the biggest gap between Blair and many of us who have watched him for years is the same gap we first noticed at university. It's the fact of his committed Christianity, and the mystery (to me) of how that affects his self-certainty. Because what I really want to know is whether, today, he has long dark nights of sleeplessness, agonising about Iraq and all who died, and still die, there.
Is he morally tormented? How does he cope? Perhaps it's like the recent television film about him, in which Robert Lindsay, who played Blair, is tormented by flashbacks and visions of bloodied children. Or perhaps he simply compartmentalises it all, rationalises it, prays — and is forgiven?
- Jackie Ashley, “Tony the Enigma”, theage.com.au
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