I was astonished by the favourable press given to Tony Blair for his conference speech, as though this glib performance didn’t encapsulate all that we hate and distrust about him. It was precisely because of his slick performances before the Iraq war that the House of Commons was misled. I think I speak for a lot of people in saying that I was not impressed; more than that, I simply don’t want to hear from him ever again. What planet are the British press actually on?