BLIAR? (June 8, 2003)

Thus The Economist on the cover showing Tony Blair’s distressed face as accusations mount that he and George Bush have deceived the world about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. To my surprise, it took me quite a while to pick out the “liar” in his family name. Was it that my brain fixed the “error” on its own, or that it has always seen the accusing word behind that jolly New Labor mask?