The case is particularly sad, harrowing, and tragic. Blair started life as an innocent student at Oxford, a typical young person in fact, asking everybody to trust him, as young innocent people do.
Then he got into 'rock and roll' beat bands and then the funny ideas started. Ugly rumours abounded as he began preaching the word of some obscure guru and even went around posing as the leader of the Labour party. Strange behaviour indeed, but why did nobody notice ?
Then came the dealings with private capitalism, the inexplicable launching of general elections in girls schools, humanitarian smart-bombs and an irreparable loss of voter turnout. This poor young man's credibility is now in ruins, and nobody cares about him. Somehow, are we to blame ?