Oh dear Lord. According to yesterday’s Londoner’s Diary, Tony Blair is bringing his religious lecture ‘Faith and Globalisation’ to Britain. The former PM ‘does God’ unashamedly these days. His talks have been a huge hit in America and now he will address British universities, starting at Durham.
In what appears to be a re-enactment of the Pilgrimage of Grace, recent Catholic convert Blair will progress south, spreading his word. Who knows, perhaps he will proselytise all the way to Brussels in time for the Lisbon treaty’s ratification?
I image he will talk in halls largely empty of students. When I was at university, the only people who could fill debating clubs and the like were Keira Knightley and Nick Griffen, and their popularity owed more to the opportunity to ogle and abuse respectively than it did to cross-examination. Religious luminaries such as the Archbishop of Canterbury received scant attention, and not even the self-proclaimed Messiah David Icke could fill so much as the odd pew.
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