Helping His Fellow Men

Doubtless in a malicious attempt to distract from the peace in which so many Middle Easterners are resting, ignorant and backsliding persons have criticised the Ascended Incarnation of the Reverend Blair for giving PR advice to the president of Kazakhstan. Nursultan Nazarbayev is an autocrat, as opposed to a populist or a dictator, and everyone's favourite envoy has been trying to help him polish his reputation with a bit of New Labour grease and glitter. After police killed fifteen people during a protest, his reverence advised Nazarbayev to borrow from Tony's very own book of homilies on Iraq, the surveillance state, the PFI boondoggle and just about everything else: "By all means make your points and I assure you we're listening. But give us credit for the huge change of a positive nature we have brought about." It is as yet unclear whether his reverence charged any royalties, or whether his ethical foreign policy, "Look over there! Terrorists!" was also included in the deal.