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  • What do Labour intellectuals really think? (UK Upper Class Twit of the Year Competition)

    01/30/2003 11:56:46 PM PST · by Timesink · 12 replies · 311+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 31, 2003
    What do Labour intellectuals really think?(Filed: 31/01/2003) 'I see Tony Blair as shallow," said John Carey, Emeritus Professor of English at Oxford and chairman of this year's Booker Prize judges. "He never says anything memorable or profound. There doesn't seem to be a mind there - only a publicity agency. The criterion always seems to be: 'How will this go down?' I also don't like the smugness and the smile, both of which seem to bespeak a kind of vanity."Another thing that made Labour supporters such as himself squirm, he went on, was "the social level Blair belongs to -...