That's how Bruce Anderson sums up Tony Blair's book in a caustic piece for the magazine. Here's the whole review for the benefit of CoffeeHousers: 'It is bizarre. As he often demonstrated in the House of Commons, Tony Blair knows how to use words. He could also have mobilised a team to help him write his memoirs. Instead, it is all his own work, and the words mutinied. This boo...

Former key Blair aide John McTernan reviews the book and weighs its words against the reality of life as a 'staffer' in No10 Downing Street

The BBC asks: How do you sum up a life story in two words? Well? How would you sum up this man's life story in two words, reader?

Mr Blair still feels anguish about the Iraq war and says that he had never guessed "the nightmare" that would unfold after he took the decision to commit troops.

THE two most weasel words distorting public policy today are "equality" and "fairness". These are the fetishist mantras of the Frankfurt School Marxism that c

I originally intended the piece below to be a brief comment to the Pensive Quill (PQ) after it published a piece about the late Fred Halliday,  but it began to gain a life of its own until it had far to many words to fit into the comment gizmo and Anthony McIntyre at the Quill suggested he post it as an independent piece. A friend in the USA emailed me recently and said those who still suppor...

Alex Salmond never misses an occasion to turn the spotlight on himself. So, at Jimmy Reid's funeral last week he made another of the empty political gestures for which his

Who Speaks For Those Who Can't? Lost in the words of politicians such as President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg for freedom of religion and the right to place a mosque at Ground Zero, are the cries of the family's of the victims who scream out for their loved ones memories. Do we as a nation possess such short memories... Watch the video by clicking here.

China has lashed out at a Pentagon report accusing its military of excessive secrecy, even as the head of United States' Pacific Command yesterday delivered a warning to B

Top-down tinkering with Enid Blyton’s books implies children can’t cope with difficult and offensive words. But they can.