Tony Blairosaurus

Tony Blair once claimed to stand for equality, public services and social justice. So what happened?

In this video, I look at Blair’s extraordinary new essay on AI, politics and the future of government, and argue that it reveals something much deeper than a fascination with technology. What it really reveals is the complete triumph of neoliberal thinking over the values Blair once claimed to support.

Blair now argues that governments must adapt themselves to AI, shrink the state, cut support for people with disabilities, prioritise defence spending, and surrender ever more power to markets and corporate interests. He presents this as inevitable. I argue that it is dangerous.

This is not really a debate about artificial intelligence. It is a debate about democracy, inequality, power, human worth, and whether politics should serve people or markets.

In this video, I explore why Blair’s argument reflects neoliberal ideology at its purest, why oligarch money and AI corporations now appear to shape political thinking, and why disability and social security have become central battlegrounds in modern politics. I also look at the extraordinary contradiction between Blair’s conversion to Catholicism and Pope Leo XIV’s direct warning about the dangers posed by AI and concentrated technological power.

At the heart of this discussion is a much bigger question. Should politics exist to serve markets and production, or should it exist to serve people, communities, democracy and the planet? Blair increasingly appears to believe the first. I believe the future depends upon resisting that idea.

This is not just a critique of Tony Blair. It is a critique of the political system that produced him and of the future now being proposed in the name of “modernisation”. If you think politics should still be about people, democracy and well-being, this discussion matters.