Tony Blair uses his new book to expose Gordon Brown as a manipulative figure who lost a winnable election.
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Telegraph on 31st Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
It is profoundly depressing that Tony Blair has had to pull out of his London book signing. Whatever you think of Blair, he is a man who led his party to three general elections victories and is the second longest serving Prime Minister of the post-war era. There is something very wrong if he feels he has to cancel an appearance at a book shop because of the threat of disruption from protesters wh...
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Spectator on 6th Sep 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
For an intelligent woman Cherie Blair is sometimes floating around in cloud cuckoo land. Tony Blair is not 'up there' with Churchill. Churchill inspired a country that had lost everything on the beaches of Dunkirk to undertake a defensive stand against Totalitarianism, Tony Blair accelerated the totalitarian state in the UK, launched an illegal war and failed to give the troops the equip...
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LookingForAVoice on 1st Oct 2008 (via lookingforavoice.blogspot.com)
Tony Blair has claimed his forthcoming memoirs will be a "frank" look back at his time in office, but a video posted online to promote the book raises questions over the book's content.
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Telegraph on 3rd Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A friend who is a Lay Reader in the Church of England pointed out that Tony Blair had a column about Faith for Reader Magazine (the in house magazine for Readers, who used to be called "Lay Readers"), and asked me "where would you put Tony Blair"?
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TheWardmanWire on 30th Nov 2008 (via mattwardman.com)
Tony Blair's controversial book finds itself in new section in bookshops.
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Telegraph on 4th Sep 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair promised to hand over a £4.6million advance for his memoirs to charity in a move condemned by some as ‘blood money’. Blood Money: Tony Blair book gift attacked The former prime minister also said he would donate any profits from the book to the Royal British Legion. Lindsey German, from the Stop The War Coalition, described the gift as evidence of his ‘guilty con...
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AndrewNutt on 17th Aug 2010 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
Tony Blair was right about Gordon Brown. Today we have confirmation of the bitterness and disagreements at the top of the Blair government. All that spinning and all those stories turn out to have been well founded. Tony Blair was wrong about the Middle East. He still thinks there are military solutions to Middle Eastern
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JohnRedwood on 1st Sep 2010 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
Come back Blair, all is forgiven. That is the message in a new ComRes poll for The Independent. Tony Blair, it seems, is the only senior Labour figure who could transform the party's electoral prospects. With Gordon...
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AndrewGrice on 5th Sep 2008 (via blogs.independent.co.uk)
Tony Blair has made millions of pounds since resigning as prime minister but the exact figure is shrouded behind a complex web of business interests.
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Telegraph on 17th Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A new book on John Howard's government, by the veteran Australian politcal journalist Paul Kelly, has a nice account of the Australian PM's first encounter with Tony Blair: "At one point John Howard, trying to be clever, asked Tony Blair: 'What are you going to do with the Thatcher legacy?' Blair paused, he sat up straight, extended his arms and broke into a huge grin. ...
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Spectator on 5th Sep 2009 (via spectator.co.uk)