'I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think that I am a pretty straight sort of guy.' Tony Blair In Pretty Straight Guys, Nick Cohen, one of the most exciting journalists of his generation, explores the feeling of angry impotence which has swept modern Britain during the Labour administration. 'Nick Cohen shows exactly why it is that the British left has balled itself up and thrown itself in the dustbin of history.' Will Self, New Statesman