Tony and Cherie Blair are renowned - some may say notorious - for enjoying the largesse of wealthy friends. But even by their own standards, their closeness to one of Hollywood's best connected couples may take some beating.

Alleged alQaeda cell with invisible ink code book researched targets including friends of exPrime Minister Tony Blair court hears.

Mandelson's ability to get Nathan Rothschild, a Tory donor, to counter-attack Osborne over the "pouring poison" line is widely seen as a tribute to his powers of persuasion. In reality Rothschild, who has long been enamoured with and in the thrall oo Tony Blair, acted after Mandelson got Blair to call Rothschild to encourage him to embarrass Osborne. M'learned friends are now being consulted as cl...

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 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.

Tony Blair's controversial book finds itself in new section in bookshops.

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...

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

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. �...

Tony Blair’s forthcoming memoirs have already been getting some attention. Obviously, I’m not important enough to have not read them in advance. But nor will I be reading them when they are published. It’s because the title of the book tells us everything we need to know already.