One possible explanation:
From the Independent Sunday.
I'm not sure if "deluded" is appropriate. Blair always seemed to understand where he was and what he was up about, with that boyish paternalism the privileged have when they know they're in the know, and are being criticized for things that are tangential at best to what's really going.
Speaking of what's really going on:
Sarkozy - the continental right-wing Blair analog - is being brought through the rabble under imperial guard, headed straight for the throne.
Of France.
informant38
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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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