Blair's Misson
John Gray's recent essay in the Independent offers an analysis of Tony Blair's premiership as Prime Minister. I've only recently been introduced to Gray's writing of which there is a substantial, recognised deal. The intro to the article welcomes Gray as 'Britain's leading philosopher', and within the essay itself, Gray defines Blair's career as "testimony to the power of neo-conservative ideas", referencing the Iraq War and Blair's unashamed belief in 'free markets' as evident of this. That Blair was and is a neo-con forms the bulk of Gray's analysis, within which Blair's key beliefs are identified; Gray cites the infamous 'Chicago speech" and Blair's theory of an ever-increasing interdependence between nations in an increasingly 'globalised' world. While this is all well and true - Blair was undoubtedly a neo-conservative - it is Gray's historical perspective that warrants examination. Gray a...