Argus title : Don’t buy “The Blair Years”. It’s author like so many in politics, is abusive to women.
My husband is very fond of reading political biographies and diaries and often I buy them for him. However, one I certainly do not intend to purchase is Alastair Campbell’s “The Blair Years”.
I can see no good reason to offer financial support to this already wealthy superannuated bully. I object to the fact that he wrote pornography when he was a young journalist and has never apologized for it. His macho strutting and tacky vulgarity repel me – and his simple nastiness, especially to women. I have no brief for Clare Short, but he of all people, is in no position to say that she “turns his stomach”.
It offends me that for almost a decade, while standing at the Prime Minister’s side, he threatened and insulted people in grossly sexist terms with complete impunity, regularly hurling the c-word at political opponents or anyone who challenged his position. In all that time, nobody stopped him – which was another small, but not insignificant reason to despise the gaggle of yes men and women Blair gathered about him. Continue reading