Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

It's hard to criticise Ed Miliband for making common cause with the progressive bits of the coalition

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So 72 hours and a keynote conference speech later, and it's still not entirely clear to what extent Ed Miliband represents an authentic ...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Blair's greatest performance was in his own mind

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It's often been observed that Tony Blair was more of an actor or a showman than an authentic politician, and in last night's BBC int...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Adventures in futility

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Audience member on tonight's Question Time - "Do we have to wait for Tony Blair's memoirs to find out the real truth?" ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Could Saddam have averted war by looking slightly more guilty?

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I finally caught up with Hans Blix's appearance on Hardtalk last night, and it brought home to me the most surreal (and that's quit...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

For all my years of experience of dealing with the media, nothing could have prepared me for a grilling by FERN BRITTON.

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If it wasn't so unspeakably maddening, it truly would be comical. Step back for a moment from the narrative about Blair's peerless ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

The inimitable Mr. Cameron

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About a billion, zillion years ago - to be more specific it was probably about 1993 - I recall seeing the impressionist Rory Bremner being i...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The unmentionable downsides

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Sticking with the Berlin Wall theme, I've just noticed an article published on the Guardian website a couple of days ago lamenting the...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

The worst President we'll never have (hopefully)

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Encouraging to read the news at Slugger O'Toole that Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen has withdrawn his support for Tony Blair as the first ...
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Friday, October 2, 2009

Winning without stardust

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I hadn't even been aware that today was decision day for the 2016 Olympic venue candidates until I caught about two seconds on the news ...
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