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...Good-Faith Effort? As an ardent reader and fan of your publication, I am finding it hard, even 24 hours later, to close my jaw after reading your story on Tony Blair's faith [June 9]. How dare Michael Elliott refer to "the chattering classes of London'' who think of Blair as smug. I think you'll find this is a common view, echoed from Lands End to John O'Groats, and with very good reason. Blair's deeds - and those of his unelected inner circle of cronies - have left the British public with little faith in politics and politicians...
...conveniently waiting until after he stepped down as Prime Minister to embrace Roman Catholicism, Blair demonstrated that his political career was more important to him than his faith. Frédéric Renard, Brussels...
...night before our main interview, Michael Elliott, editor of our international editions, and I chatted with Blair at a party for the Palestine Investment Conference, which furnishes the opening scene of Mike's revealing and insightful portrait of Blair in this week's issue. During our interview the next day, Blair, who has been working as the special envoy to the Middle East of the U.S.-Russia-European Union-U.N. "Quartet" of powers, was eloquent in arguing why globalization has made the need for an interfaith dialogue more important than ever. At the same time, for someone...
Mike, who was an undergraduate at Oxford shortly before Blair, has been covering and writing about the former Prime Minister since 1984, when Blair was a young Labour member of the House of Commons. He has long been fascinated by the fact that Blair was known to be religious, something Mike says is rare in what he calls Britain's "aggressively secular society." Mike grew up in an intensely religious family in the suburbs of Liverpool--his father was on the national council of the Baptist church--and he says, "I think that probably gave me some sympathy...
...Sunday, June 1, you can see Tony Blair on our sister network cnn as the first guest on the new international-affairs show Fareed Zakaria--gps, airing at 1 p.m. E.T. and also around the world on cnn International