Letter:Prescott, Blair and Labour principles

Friday 16 August 1996 23:02 BST

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Sir: The demonisation of a leading politician has a distinguished precedent. William Hogarth's John Wilkes Esqr was published on 16 May 1763. It shows Wilkes wearing a wig organised to suggest horns, leering wickedly, and bearing - jauntily posed atop his staff - a Liberty cap. May we hope that Blair might live up to this?

Professor MARCIA POINTON

Department of History of Art

University of Manchester

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