Throughout its years in government - from Tony Blair's famous "Education, education, education" speech to the more recent "Every Child Matters" programme - Labour has claimed to champion the needs of the younger generation. For the 2,000 children who are sent to UK immigration detention centres every year, however, these claims ring hollow. These children are torn from their homes, their comm...
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NewStatesman on 4th Sep 2008 (via newstatesman.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)
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)
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.
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DowningStreetSays on 6th Feb 2009 (via downingstreetsays.com)
For an intelligent woman Cherie Blair is sometimes floating around in cloud cuckoo land. Tony Blair is not 'up there' with Churchill. Churchill inspired a country that had lost everything on the beaches of Dunkirk to undertake a defensive stand against Totalitarianism, Tony Blair accelerated the totalitarian state in the UK, launched an illegal war and failed to give the troops the equip...
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LookingForAVoice on 1st Oct 2008 (via lookingforavoice.blogspot.com)
Bring your cooks and your personal trainers, your butlers and your heiresses. Because new Labour is the natural party of ambition Tony Blair As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted we must be new, newer, newest Labour. The government is Tony Blair, Tony Blair is the government. Brave, courageous, bold, fresh, change, prominent, reform, daring, progressive, market, fearless, distinct, Bl...
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NewStatesman on 18th Sep 2008 (via newstatesman.com)
Tony Blair is keen to name-drop in every chapter of his memoir A Journey. From footballers to Hollywood actors, Mr Blair gives his opinion on each.
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Telegraph on 2nd Sep 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The US kept a secret personal detail file on Tony Blair, breaking a US-UK agreement to not spy on each other's leaders, a former US communications operator said yesterday.
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PoliticsCoUk on 25th Nov 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
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.
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Telegraph on 8th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
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...
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Obsolete on 21st Apr 2009 (via septicisle.info)
Tony Blair has launched a new organisation about religion and God - called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
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SkyNews on 9th Apr 2009 (via news.sky.com)