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The feeling grows (for me, at least) that Blair should not be allowed to continue as Prime Minister and certainly not be allowed to leave office at a tim eof his choosing. His crimes against the left of the Labour Party - and the party's history and purpose - aside, he must surely be brought to account for his persecution of the invasion and destruction of Iraq, the slaughter of so many innocent people, and the bare-faced lies he continues to tell to justify his actions. His unswerving allegiance to the king of shrubs in Washington is enough to have him committed, if not to Wormwood Scrubs, then at least to Dartmoor.

In this week's New Statesman John Pilger has an article entitled "The Death of Freedom", which examines not only the creeping fascism of the US government but the role of the media and the BBC in standing aside and ignoring its rise there and here in Britain. One paragraph will suffice: For the BBC....the killing of half a million children by America's medieval siege of Iraq during the 1990s never happened, just as the Dhafir and Padilla trials and the Senate vote banning freedom never happened. The political prisoners of Belmarsh barely exist; and a big brave posse of Metropolitan police never swept away Maya Evans as she publicly grieved British soldiers killed in the cause of nothing except rotten power.