Monday, September 6, 2010

Looking for Tony Blair's memoir? Try the crime section


(Cartoon by Steve Bell)

Facebook protest group takes time to 'reclassify' the former prime minister's memoirs in British book shops

The Guardian

"When Tony Blair called his much-awaited memoirs A Journey, he probably expected its journey into bookshops would be relatively straightforward.

But a Facebook page was today inundated with pictures of the former prime minister's book in odd places after thousands joined a group entitled "Subversively move Tony Blair's memoirs to the crime section in bookshops".

The Facebook page – which had more than 5,000 members by mid-afternoon – urges them to "make bookshops think twice about where they categorise our generations [sic] greatest war criminal"......"

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