Dear Mr Marr
I was genuinely shocked to see Tony Blair on Sunday AM (13/2/11), but then I remembered your famous quote:
“I don’t think anybody after this is going to be able to say of Tony Blair that he’s somebody who is driven by the drift of public opinion, or focus groups, or opinion polls. He took all of those on. He said that they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath, and that in the end the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both of those points he has been proved conclusively right. And it would be entirely ungracious, even for his critics, not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result.” (BBC 1, News At Ten, 9th April, 2003)
Would it be entirely ungracious to say, eight years on and over a million deaths later, that instead of interviewing Tony Blair, you could have performed a citizen’s arrest* on him?
I look forward to your response
Yours Sincerely
Neil Laurenson
* http://www.arrestblair.org/performing-a-citizens-arrest