CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Former British prime minister Tony Blair will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Surrey Regional Economic Summit next October.
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Poster Tiresias has been kind enough to craft a lipogram (a text work with certain constraints - in this case shunning the letter 'e') in honour of our dearly beloved PM for our entertainment. I hail such skill and art: "Following a famous colloquy with Tony Blair in a fancy trattoria in Islington, Brown had to wait long and grudgingly to fulfil his cosmic ambitions. But now, according to official...
The Why of the World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some 112 former Presidents and Prime Ministers, including Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and George H.W. Bush, have signed this letter calling on the UN to take action against the Burmese junta unless it releases all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, by the end of the year. It's an impressive list of leaders from all corners of the globe but representatives...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, offered praise Wednesday for President-elect Barack Obama's selections to lead his national security team, and he expressed hope that Obama's administration will press hard and immediately for progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | yesterday
Todays Daily mail has the (story)that anyone can be asked to produce ID to prove who they are and if failing to do so face arrest This idea was first suggested by Home secretary John Reid and Tony Blair days befor they departed office ,but quickly fogotten when the police said it was totally unworkable. For a start. Policing in britain is by consent we all might feel bad about how the Irish were treated...
Council on Foreign Relations (Free subscription) | yesterday
The international community's Mideast envoy, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, says conditions are ripe to boost the Israeli-Palestinian peace process but stresses the need to move swiftly, especially in resolving the dispute over Gaza.
Letters From A Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dear Gordon Brown, Having been forced to live in the shadow of Tony Blair for so long, I figured that you would have lots of time to plan your time as leader of the Labour Party. Hard as it is to believe given the unbelievable scale of what has happened during your tenure, you’ve only been [...]
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Hilary White, LifeSite News One of the most important institutions of higher learning in the Catholic world will host Cherie Blair, the adamantly pro-abortion wife of former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, later this month. The Social Sciences faculty of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, known popularly as the Angelicum, is [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The 2012 Summer Olympics won't have many lasting economic or social benefits for Britain except as a morale-boosting party, a 2002 government report said. The 250-page Game Plan strategy document, commissioned by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was delivered in 2002 by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as Blair was gearing up his efforts to land the 2012 Olympics,...
Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Thirteen countries with troops currently stationed in Iraq will remove their soldiers by the end of the year from the war-torn country. President Bush and former British prime minister Tony Blair had scrambled the 'coalition of the willing' together in the build-up of the 2003 Iraqi invasion, in a bid to legitimize what was always an unpopular war in world public opinion.
Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Oh boy : Ministers ignored evidence from their own experts who found scant social or economic justification for bidding for the 2012 Olympics, The Times has learnt. A 250-page strategy document, signed off in December 2002 by Tony Blair as Prime Minister but selectively distributed, found little support for the claim that the Games would produce significant economic returns or more people playing sport....
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Vancouver's biggest suburb is inviting former British prime minister Tony Blair to give advice about how to jump-start the local economy.Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts, in her inaugural speech yesterday for her second term, said she was inviting Mr. Blair to address an economic summit next year because his ''revitalization of the British economy during his time in office offers some important lessons for...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Tony Blair and Lord Coe might have picked a sport other than basketball to illustrate their claim that the London Games would inspire a new generation of Olympians.
Blogocrats (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Posted by Kevin Rennie Watched Part 3 The Howard Years: Commander-in-Chief last night. Decided that my post yesterday should have been called: Luck, Lies and Latham. Tony Blair and George W. Bush were his political referees for the Iraq war. Funny how the three of them are still sure that they were right about WMDs and Saddam [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
When Iraq was invaded and President Saddam Hussein toppled, US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair used to boast that their action had made the world a safer place. It was a boast full of arrogance and dangerously provocative.
