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...
submitted by
Spectator on 2nd Sep 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
In calculated House of Commons intervention the key Tony Blair's ally said Government had fallen into "elephant trap".
submitted by
Telegraph on 28th Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Former prime minister Tony Blair was targeted by a private detective who did work for a newspaper group, a Labour MP has claimed in the Commons.
submitted by
BBCPolitics on 8th Jun 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Tony Blair could have lost the crucial House of Commons vote on the Iraq war if he had told MPs he wanted to depose Saddam Hussein regardless of whether he had weapons of mass destruction, a senior minister has accepted.
submitted by
Telegraph on 13th Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Michael Martin the Speaker of the House of Commons has said that he will investigate whether Tony Blair "deliberately misled" Parliament over the Bernie Ecclestone scandal.
submitted by
Telegraph on 13th Oct 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Commons speaker Michael Martin has said he is "deeply concerned" about allegations surrounding Tony Blair's actions during the Bernie Ecclestone affair.
submitted by
PoliticsCoUk on 13th Oct 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
An investigation into whether Tony Blair misled Parliament over the Bernie Ecclestone donation scandal has been ruled out by the Speaker of the House of Commons.
submitted by
Telegraph on 28th Oct 2008 (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...
submitted by
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.
submitted by
Telegraph on 3rd Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Tony Blair receives a standing ovation from the entire House of Commons at the end of Prime Minister's Questions, 27 June 2007. David Cameron praises Blair's achievements and wishes him well in whatever he does in the future. BBC2 is criticised for failing to broadcast the ovation. Despite the adversarial arrangement of the floor of the House of Commons, it seems to me that, politically,...
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...
