There's an old saying: don't look in the crystal ball, read the book. It is clear that Tony Blair wants not just to write Labour's history but to help shape its future. The test of the political significance of his book is whether it marks the end of the journey he led his party on or helps to ensure that it continues? The re-opening of old political wounds will be enough to make so...
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NickRobinson on 2nd Sep 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
Miss Blair? F**k would I....In last week's Question Time, David Milliband claimed that the electorate would "miss Tony Blair as PM" once he resigned. Well, let's just say I don't share such sentiments.Virtually all British PM's in history have been either imperiailist, or increased the size of government. In that sense, they have been grossly un-libertarian. Blair has been NO exception. Tony Blair...
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LibOnTheUK on 14th Jul 2008 (via chrislib.blogspot.com)
I've just been sent the link to Tony Blair talking about his memoirs: If you play the video I am fairly sure he refers to his "political career so far" and the book having helped him work out what to do next. Is a comeback planned?
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LukeAkehurst on 3rd Aug 2010 (via lukeakehurst.blogspot.com)
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)
Stephen Fry and Tony Blair have shown themselves to be pretty ignorant of modern political history.Stephen Fry: Maybe it's time he and Tony Blair went back to schoolIn a podcast interview on the No 10
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CommonsConfident on 26th Jun 2008 (via blogs.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)
Did Tony Blair write the extraordinary leaked memo he is being credited with penning? Blair is TB in the text, leading some to conclude he is so grand that he now refers to himself in the third personTony Blair's brain could analyse a problem quickly I'm not entirely convinced, and it reads as though it could easily have been written by someone in his office or one of his old inner circle trying t...
Cherie Blair claims that her husband will be judged “very well” by history and - laughably - claims that: he’ll be up there with Churchill BWAHAHAHAHA! Tony Blair is by no means Churchillian. To describe Tony Blair as “Churchillian” is a travesty of language and history. His famous quote “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on
