John Morrison
anthony blair captain of school
The only book about Tony Blair that you will ever need to read. Not surprisingly, it’s fiction.
‘I have a warrant for the arrest of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.’
Behind the inspector stood two motor vehicles and five uniformed policemen. Blair smiled gravely and stepped forward.
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‘Of course, inspector. I shall be delighted to assist you with your enquiries.’
Anthony Blair’s dear old mater always said he was ‘good at making things up’. As
a new boy at St Stephen’s College, he learns the ropes from his dour Scottish study
companion Brown. Popular and polite, he charms everyone including Matron Boothroyd
and the school porter’s stepdaughter Cherie. Thanks to a tragic incident with a runaway
horse and the help of his loyal toast fag Peter, ‘Sooty’ Blair becomes captain of
school. He mingles with the local aristocracy and survives an embarrassing day out
foxhunting. There are dark encounters with Fenians and a suspected Russian anarchist.
But triumph turns to disaster when a small boy called Kelly is found dead in the
Coalhaven canal, and Blair and the Bible-
‘Charles Dickens’s Steerforth meets Enid Blyton’s Julian half way – about 1910 – and the product bears an uncanny resemblance to someone we all know. Columnists may rage and psychobiographers babble, but in one neat, beguiling and funny little satire, John Morrison has said it all.’ Matthew Parris
After a long career as a foreign correspondent in Russia, Europe and Africa, John Morrison spent two years at Westminster for Reuters, watching the hand of history tap Tony Blair on the shoulder and travelling with him to China, Japan and the USA. His 1991 biography of Boris Yeltsin was translated into several languages and in 2001 he published Reforming Britain, an analysis of constitutional reform under Labour. He is now an independent author, playwright and publisher. This is his first novel.
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