The man who turned British politics into a shopping mall

Tony Blair’s tenure as British prime minister ends this Wednesday, his political career tainted by bitterness over Iraq.

This Wednesday, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair will find himself out of a job.

After ten years of historic and unprecedented tenure as British prime minister he will vacate 10 Downing Street. For a decade, Blair has dominated British politics, not only by winning an historic third new Labour term, but by inflicting profound political damage ...