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Tony Blair 'Should Read More Dostoevsky'

Posted at 12:11PM Friday 05 Feb 2010

The archbishop of Canterbury has renewed his criticism of Tony Blair by urging the former prime minister to recognise his "absurdity" in the wake of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.

Repeating a previous quip that Blair is "very strong on God, very weak on irony", Rowan Williams suggested the ex-incumbent of No 10 had perhaps not done enough soul-searching.

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