Tony Blair still carries himself as though he alone understands Labour’s soul. Every few years, Blair reappears to warn the party it is drifting too far left, becoming too suspicious of business or losing touch with “modern Britain”. Yet his latest 5,700-word essay feels different. It reads less like advice from a former Labour leader and more like a declaration that many of the party’s founding instincts are now, in Blair’s eyes, problems to be dismantled. Again and again throughout the piece,