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FT column: The hatred of Blair is over the top

My latest column is on Tony Blair’s memoirs.

High-profile book launches are meant to be a bit of a circus. But it is hard to find a parallel for the mixture of hype and hatred that will attend the publication of Tony Blair’s memoirs on Wednesday.

The World

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