The degree of deceit involved in our decision to go to war on Iraq becomes steadily clearer. This was a foreign policy disgrace of epic proportions... It is now very difficult to avoid the conclusion that Tony Blair engaged in an alarming subterfuge with his partner George Bush and went on to mislead and cajole the British people into a deadly war they had made perfectly clear they didn’t want, and on a basis that it’s increasingly hard to believe even he found truly credible...
Hindsight is a great temptress. But we needn’t trouble her on the way to a confident conclusion that Mr Blair’s fundamental flaw was his sycophancy towards power. Perhaps this seems odd in a man who drank so much of that mind-altering brew at home. But Washington turned his head and he couldn’t resist the stage or the glamour that it gave him. In this sense he was weak and, as we can see, he remains so. Since those sorry days we have frequently heard him repeating the self-regarding mantra that “hand on heart, I only did what I thought was right”. But this is a narcissist’s defence and self-belief is no answer to misjudgment: it is certainly no answer to death. “Yo, Blair”, perhaps, was his truest measure.
These are not my words. Nor are they the words of veteran warriors of truth and justice such as John Pilger or Robert Fisk. They are the words of – hold your breath – none other than Ken Macdonald QC, Britain's director of public prosecutions from 2003 to 2008.
Alas, there are men of courage and integrity among the native Britons. I implore you to read the full article from which the quotes above are taken.
Is this an aberration or a sign that perfidious Albion is at last embarking on the long journey towards becoming straight and honest? I am not optimistic but to read words such as Mr Macdonald's – the "Establishment's" very own – is heartening, if only for a few seconds.