by FELICITY ARBUTHNOT
Into this Orwellian world, enter ‘Teflon Tony’ Blair, set to collect the latest in a glittering array of Awards for services to humanity. His contribution to the betterment of humankind has included enjoining the US, in the Afghanistan invasion and between 1997 and 2003, in the silent cull of an average of 6,000 Iraqi children a month, instructing Britain’s UN officials to veto everything from vaccines to ventolin, insulin to incubators and intubators, paper to pencils, female hygiene appliances, to aids for children at the schools for the blind and deaf.
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