Former PM denies his foreign policy helped recruit terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan Tony Blair today discussed again how he does not pass a "single day" without reflecting on the aftermath of the Iraq war. In a wide-ranging Easter interview, the former prime minister spoke of his religious faith being a "comfort" to him at all times. Blair also denied that his foreign policy had helped recruit t...

As prime minister, Tony Blair knew how to use sport to political advantage. Now he wants to use it to change the world. The statesman and 'midfield generalissimo' introduces his new campaign, Beyond Sport Tony Blair was the sporty statesman long before Barack impressed us with his ball skills. As prime minister, he exchanged headers with Kevin Keegan and played tennis with Pat Cash; he a...

Cherie Blair isn’t getting the high quality political briefing she used to receive while living at No 10: Former British prime minister Tony Blair’s wife Cherie Blair has tripped herself up with her off-the-cuff comments at a school function in a Punjab village and landed in a political controversy. … On Tuesday, Blair had told a gathering at

FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband has gone on the campaign trail for Tony Blair, "selling" the former prime minister's European credentials to fellow EU foreign min

Via Liberal Conspiracy, I come across the thoughts of the Independent's John Rentoul, one of the very few Blair-fanciers left on the face of the planet: Just to prove my utter devotion to the finest peace-time prime minister, I confess my reaction when I read that the Tony Blair Faith Foundation Facebook page had been defaced with, among others, this comment: "Tony Blair was about as good for...

Former prime minister Tony Blair's expenses bill was revealed by The Sunday Telegraph last week to be over £8 million. Sources say a huge amount is spent on foreign travel by him and his team; here we chart just how extensive his travels have been.

Tony Blair built his political reputation by betraying democracy and talking to IRA terrorists. This was called making peace.  Now he returns to old tricks.. "Hamas must somehow be brought into the Middle East peace process because the policy of isolating Gaza in the quest for a settlement will not work, Tony Blair has told The Times. The former prime minister implicitly criticises the strate...

Asked how incandescent the Prime Minister was that Tony Blair had met the new President, the PMS replied that Tony Blair was the Quartet Envoy and it was important for the Quartet and important for UK interests that he had a close relationship with the US administration. original source.

George W Bush, the former US president, has launched his memoirs and given a series of interviews, which provide fascinating insights into his views on foreign powers, among them Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister.

So far so good for John Rentoul: Blair’s walking it, but there have been intriguing moments. The suggestion that Blair’s foreign policy was motivated solely by vanity is false. The former Prime Minister’s thinking is extremely coherent. That is not to say that he is right nor to deny his obvious vanity, or to overlook that this may simply be Blair in matinee idol mode. But he sub...