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...

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...

ANTI-WAR campaigners will stage a protest today outside an art gallery where former prime minister Tony Blair is expected to attend a party to mark the launch of his new book.

So Tony Blair will be an official British candidate for the job of EU Council President should the Irish vote for the Lisbon Treaty (and the Polish and Czech presidents sign the document). That's what Baroness Kinnock has said. For many CoffeeHousers, this will combine two things you love to hate. But few Britons have the ex-Prime Minister's international starpower and commitment to a fr...

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to donate the £4.6m advance and all royalties from his memoirs to a sports centre for badly injured soldiers.

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...

Tony Blair's memoirs are unlike those of any previous prime minister, not least because of the space devoted to settling scores with his arch rival. But they fail to tell the whole story, says Simon Heffer.

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.

I voted for Tony Blair as Labour leader in 1994; I voted for him again to become Labour prime minister in 1997. I soon learned my lesson. As Prime Minister, he failed. Not so much domestically: sure, he disappointed but show me a political leader who doesn’t. But in foreign policy, Mr Blair was an

Late Labour leader John Smith was described as a "stupendous toper" by Tony Blair, who believed his love of socialising led to him drinking "more than was wise"