Thom Yorke asks Tony Blair, in hidden type, about an MI5 file

Thom Yorke has hidden a question for Tony Blair at the top of his page on the band's site, radiohead.com/thom.html. It is set in black type on the black page, and NME reports today that it appears when the space that looks empty is highlighted. I reckon I maybe deserve a file at MI5 now Tony what do you think?³

First copies of Kid A, out in Britain on 2 October, hide a second booklet behind the plastic CD tray, and the papers have found Blair in it. It is in American copies too, and the Hartford Courant's reviewer found it after a weekend with the record, full of cartoon monsters and pages of words, only some of them sung on the album.

The Guardian got there first, on 9 October, taking a cartoon in the 12-page booklet for the Prime Minister, with sharpened teeth and demonic eyes, set beside slogans about a man who takes people's money, tells them what they want to hear and claims he was always on their side. Downing Street declined to comment. NME followed the next day with a pencil caricature of Blair and a dedication “For Leo”, which it took for the Blairs' son, born in May, and a slogan in which the man paints himself white to reflect the blast. Denver's Westword read the same pages differently, as an illustrated attack on the World Trade Organization in the cut-up style of radiohead.com.

At the Royal Festival Hall in London on 1 July Yorke dedicated “You and Whose Army?” to him. And “Follow Me Around”, a new song that is not on Kid A, names Tony and asks whether he lied.

Radiohead and Tony Blair, 2000