{"id":34664,"date":"2018-03-30T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/30\/corbyn-and-blair-are-they-really-so-very-different-marina-hyde\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:50:28","slug":"corbyn-and-blair-are-they-really-so-very-different-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=34664","title":{"rendered":"Corbyn and Blair: are they really so very different? | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both believe in their own moral infallibility. In the movies, this type of guy redeems himself. In real life, it\u2019s not quite so simpleAre we so different, you and I?\u201d the Emperor wonders of Maximus in Gladiator. \u201cYou and I are very much alike,\u201d Belloq tells Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. \u201cI am but a shadowy reflection of you.\u201d \u201cYou and me \u2026 you and me, we not so different,\u201d a rather poorly drawn Mexican tells Vin Diesel in Fast &amp; Furious 4.Even when the characters don\u2019t say it, we know it: Pacino and De Niro in the restaurant in Heat. The bit where Keanu Reeves has a clear shot on Patrick Swayze in Point Break and he can\u2019t do it because he\u2019s in too deep and he just has to howl and empty the chamber into the sky (later parodied hilariously in Hot Fuzz. Luke cutting Vader\u2019s hand off in The Empire Strikes Back. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/30\/jeremy-corbyn-tony-blair\" target=\"_blank\">Corbyn and Blair: are they really so very different? | Marina Hyde<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both believe in their own moral infallibility. In the movies, this type of guy redeems himself. In real life, it\u2019s not quite so simpleAre we so different, you and I?\u201d the Emperor wonders of Maximus in Gladiator. \u201cYou and I are very much alike,\u201d Belloq tells Indiana Jones in Raiders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}