At last it can be shown. Two days before the medallion man of British politics gets a gong for advancing world peace, The Independent on Sunday has obtained the art work for the congressional gold medal awarded to Tony Blair in 2003, but not, so far, actually minted and presented. The medal - unlike the standard Ruritanian presidential medal of freedom that Mr Blair will receive from his old buddy George Bush on Tuesday - allows the recipient "input" into its design. This may, in the case of Britain's own pretty straight kinda guy, have been a mistake.
At last it can be shown. Two days before the medallion man of British politics gets a gong for advancing world peace, The Independent on Sunday has obtained the art work for the congressional gold medal awarded to Tony Blair in 2003, but not, so far, actually minted and presented.
The medal - unlike the standard Ruritanian presidential medal of freedom that Mr Blair will receive from his old buddy George Bush on Tuesday - allows the recipient "input" into its design. This may, in the case of Britain's own pretty straight kinda guy, have been a mistake.
'Our ultimate weapon is not our guns, but our beliefs'. Huh? Ad astra per aspera
Bang head on wall? Or just laugh at the ridiculous image the toady has had cast of himself?
Fifty years from now no one under the age of thirty will remember who he the hell Blair was.
