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Paddy McGuffin: Blair’s pants on fire yet again

With the blanket coverage afforded to the ongoing hokey-cokey shenanigans by every media outlet in the country, it was going to take something special to penetrate the fog of disinformation, ambiguity and downright falsehood that have become a daily fact of life in recent months.

As ever, cometh the hour cometh the man. Step forward Anthony Lynton Blair Esq who, if this week is anything to go by, appears to be running out of rocks to hide under.

Maybe he thought that with his erstwhile chum Murdoch rehitched it was safe to show his face again after his ill-advised alleged dalliance with Wendy Deng.

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