For me, Tony Blair's autobiography is a work of fascinating deconstruction. The slick and latterly despised figure we knew from newspapers and television bulletins crumbles away to reveal someone on the same journey of self-improvement as we are. "I was the same jumble of failed dreams, thwarted ...
The best because by this time I felt liberated, strong and up for anything. The worst because it was just as well I felt like that. For these two years, the party was revolting; Gordon was in a perpetual state of machination; the anti-Blair media (i.e. most of it) had given up any pretence at obj...