Tony Blair

Is Tony Blair Fit to Become the President of the European Union?

Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

We have seen Prime Minister Gordon Brown and most member of his party promote Tony Blair as the first President of the European Union. Dare other members of the British Government put their names forward to support such a person who may in the near future be called to give account of his reasons for going to war? Dare they be associated with a person who could well be soon listed as a war criminal?...

"Vote for us, we'll make things worse!"

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

By David Beeson There is a fresh new breeze blowing through politics today. David Cameron and the Tories are going to renew politics in this country and for that we should be deeply grateful to them. Cameron has shown himself to be keen to learn from the errors of the past and avoid making them himself. He saw, for instance, the euphoria that greeted Tony Blair’s election back in 1997. It actually...

The story that seems to want to stay a small one

Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

The Telegraph's report that "A secretive company run by the brother of Tony Blair’s main adviser is profiting from being a key player in the development of Libya’s lucrative tourist industry" seems interesting and worthy of comment but I cannot see any coverage in the blogosphere, why? The Telegraph report much that is of interest in this article and in fact you really need to...

AGI: Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative

Niger Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

From The Office of Tony Blair November 05, 2009 Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative to create development through good governance becomes charity The Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative has become a registered UK charity after creating a unique 'hands-on' approach to development and poverty eradication over the past eighteen months. The Charity Commission approved the application from this...

• Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative to create development through good governance becomes charity - The Office Of Tony Blair
• AGI: Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative - Sudan Watch
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MP vermin may escape reform.

The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

A dof of the cap to All Seeing Eye who pointed out this gem: Prof Sir Ian Kennedy, head of the new body charged with rewriting the rules on MPs' expenses, has been quoted as saying he had "no obligation" to accept everything that Sir Christopher Kelly has suggested. So who knows, MP's may well keep their cushy taxpayer funded 2nd homes, keep on employing their dribbling retarded offspring...

Blair's bid to be president of Europe seems hopeless | Alexander Chancellor

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

And he'd have even less chance if it was a democratic election Tony Blair, I read, still hasn't given up hope of becoming president of the European Union despite reports that his prospects are hopeless. He is said to be lobbying European leaders with renewed energy in the belief that he can still make it. What makes him believe he can do so when most of the media agree that he can't? Does he know...

Exit Tony Blair, enter Herman Van Rompuy - the frontrunner for EU presidency

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The ideal appointment for the EU presidency, it has been suggested, would be "someone who could stop the traffic in Beijing" – the implication being that Tony Blair, whatever else he may represent, at least has enough star wattage to do that. With the waning of Blair's candidacy, however, and the emergence of the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, as frontrunner, Europe may...

Tony Blair asked to explain the sacking of former Lord Chancellor

Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Tony Blair will be asked to explain his decision to sack Lord Irvine of Lairg as the Lord Chancellor after conflicting reports of what happened.

Lord Mandelson mounts final offensive to save Tony Blair's EU presidency campaign

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Lord Mandelson has mounted a final offensive to save Tony Blair's troubled campaign to become the first President of the European Union a post created by the Lisbon Treaty.

Roman's soldier

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

On tour for his novel set during the Roman empire, former political journalist and best-selling author Robert Harris talks frankly about Tony Blair, almost draws a complete blank on Brian Cowen and defends his old friend Roman Polanski, writes

And Then There Were None?

David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Tony Blair was no enthusiast for Proportional Representation. He gave it to new bodies to indicate that he didn't think they mattered. But his introduction of the party list system for Strasbourg, while certainly having that motivation, also had another. The old European Parliamentary Labour Party had been a rich seam of dissent over many long years. Almost all of it was duly purged. To that end, the...

Kelly's MP expenses proposals may be overruled

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago

The man appointed to oversee the future expenses regime for MPs will not necessarily implement the proposals published by Sir Christopher Kelly, but will instead conduct a wide-ranging review of his own. The three leaders of the main political parties and Kelly, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, had this week said the proposals should be implemented as a whole. But Sir Ian Kennedy,...

Foundation hospitals: Private patients, public concern | Editorial

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago

Tony Blair's critics once dared to hope Gordon Brown had a plan to stop the slide towards the privatisation of public services. When he declared "the town square is more than a marketplace" , it was imagined he had closely scrutinised all questions concerning the proper boundary between the public and the private realm, questions such as how far state hospitals should move towards receiving...

Dave loves Boris

The Talking Clock (Free subscription) | yesterday

David Cameron gives an exclusive interview to London's Evening Standard today - which already seems to be all over every other newspaper's websites. In it, he sounds like the ghost of the last democratically elected Prime Minister, Tony Blair - remember him and remember democracy? Yes, it does feel like a very long time ago. Why's he sound like Blair? Well, there's a fair bit of the interview

And The Point Of this is?

Dale Harris, Guitarist (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

This is not supposed to be some pompous essay. If one was to do any subject justice then a great deal more would have to be said than is required here. That is, keep it short and snappy and everyone is happy. Like everything I hate about adverts: get your message across and no depth, investigation which implies shallowness or worse, there's something really bad underneath that expanding too much on...

At the end, a justice for everyone… Chirac in trial…

natwhokares | 30/10/2009

http://whokares.net/2009/10/at-the-end-a-justice-for-everyone-chirac-in-trial/ What should happened, happened at the end. In France, the president can’t be sued it’s in the Constitution, De Gaulle choice. The thing is when a French president is not in function anymore he comes back a citizen like the others. That’s why he’ll go in court soon. It’s the first time in France during the Ve Republic, a...