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The leaders of a religious dictatorship must always be on guard against some holier-than-thou revisionist bearing a new and improved "Truth."
Actually, the angel is so stuck-up and holier-than-thou that it's kind of fun to kick his goddamn ass."
In part, the overwrought reaction of the British media reflects their irritation with the holier-than-thou Blair and their impatience, more than a year into his premiership, to catch him out at something . They have longed to show that Blair's New Laborites are as scheming and money-grubbing as the Old Tories were.