There's a remarkable self-certainty about what we've seen of Tony Blair's book so far. Sure, there are the fleeting moments of doubt and insecurity: the drinking that was becoming less a pleasure and more a habit, for instance. But, apart from that, the dominant motif is how His Way was the Right Way. And so, he was right to keep Brown on as Chancellor. He was, it seems, right...
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Spectator on 1st Sep 2010 (via spectator.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 is to cash in on his experience as prime minister after establishing a business offering clients political and economic advice.
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Telegraph on 23rd Feb 2009 (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)
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)
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 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)
Tony Blair misled Parliament by claiming that Britain could legally attack Iraq in the face of United Nations opposition despite being given clear advice to the contrary, new evidence suggests.
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Telegraph on 17th Jan 2011 (via telegraph.co.uk)
This was a story which entirely passed me by, but throws up a couple of intriguing questions. I tip my hat to the Independent’s John Rentoul for highlighting Tony Blair’s address to the Institute for Government entitled, How to Be Prime Minister, held at the end of June. In it Mr Blair commented, The British
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 7th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
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)
Tony Blair offered a "strong commitment" to back the US in disarming Iraq, in spite of receiving advice that war would be illegal without a second UN resolution, according to his written evidence to the Iraq inquiry
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FT on 21st Jan 2011 (via ft.com)