Witchcraft and nail clippings: the weird world of Cherie Blair?

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Witchcraft and nail clippings: the weird world of Cherie Blair?
By Cahal Milmo
Published: 20 September 2005

Even by the standards of the alternative therapies said to be used by Cherie Blair, submitting her husband's toenail clippings to a health guru's pendulum is taking her alleged New Age obsession to a higher level.

Mrs Blair, a human rights lawyer, has long been the subject of claims about her fondness for weird and wonderful treatments, ranging from a Mayan rebirthing ceremony to eating strawberry leaves to cure swollen ankles.

But a book published yesterday about the Blairs has taken tales of odd practices inside the prime ministerial household to new extremes.

Such was the eyebrow-raising nature of the claims made in Tony And Cherie, A Special Relationship that Downing Street issued a forthright denial.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article313787.ece

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1. Weird sex life: until 1996 Blair was telling all his chums he'd had

a vasectomy after the birth of Katherine, the youngest in the litter.

No-one has said much in public about little Leo Blair's subsequent miraculous conception and birth.

JACK TEMPLE: met this rabid old quack a couple of times when I was researching a documentary on homeopathy and 'alternative' healers. Thought he was completely off his rocker after he said that the practise of 'radionics' -ie dowsing with a pendulum over hair, nails, scabs, etc - was able to detect cancerous tumors.