a Brechtian moment

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Cause and consequence: "Tony Blair appears to be on the brink of a Brechtian moment, in which he will need to dissolve the people who have lost his confidence and elect another.

Certainly, if he claims that anyone who believes there is a connection between the government's foreign policy - above all, Iraq - and the July 7 massacre in London is a 'fellow traveller of terrorism', then he has his work cut out. Fully 85% of the public do, according to a Daily Mirror/GMTV poll.

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The government's refusal to associate cause and consequence, which would be child-like were it not so obviously self-serving, is sustained only by hysterical warnings against the new evil of 'root-causism' from the residual pro-empire liberals."