"He's a big bad bastard and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too," he said.
And Murdoch is "a big bad bastard" who despises politicians ("they get in his way") unless you convince him you can be one too, he added.
Price explains in his book: Blair and [Alastair] Campbell took to heart the advice of the Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, on how to deal with Murdoch: "He's a big bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too.
Without ever saying so at that stage, Blair would leave interviewers with the impression that he knew he was dealing with a "big, bad bastard"; it was just business.
From the big bastard riff of "New Born" through the cathartic, lung-bursting double of "Plug in Baby" and "Time is Running Out" to the berserk cavalry charge finale of "Knights of Cydonia".
"Newman is most comfortable in a role when it isn't scaled heroically; even when he plays a bastard, he's not a big bastard – only a callow, selfish one... you don't believe it when he plays someone perverse or vicious, and the older he gets and the better you know him, the less you believe it".
One little thing — or, more accurately, lots of one-little-things that came together into one big bastard of a little thing — nearly wrecked it.
Shine on, you big bastard.
1780 1856 WILLIAM BUCKLEY William Buckley was a big bastard, standing at 6ft 6ftches.
17801856 WILLIAM BUCKLEY William Buckley was a big bastard, standing at 6ft 6ftches.
