Tony Blair

DISCLAIMER:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder. Peter Hain reveals in his memoirs that he struck the deal with the Spanish government in 2002 to end the UK's 300-year control of the vital strategic outpost. He makes clear that he and Mr Blair were both prepared to ride roughshod over the objections of the people of Gibraltar in order to get their way, describing Mr Blair's attitude to the...Read Full Story

:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder. Peter Hain reveals in his memoirs that he struck the deal with the Spanish government in 2002 to end the UK's 300-year control of the vital strategic outpost. He makes clear that he and Mr Blair were both prepared to ride roughshod over the objections of the people of Gibraltar in order to get their way, describing Mr Blair's attitude to the...Read Full Story

:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder. Peter Hain reveals in his memoirs that he struck the deal with the Spanish government in 2002 to end the UK's 300-year control of the vital strategic outpost. He makes clear that he and Mr Blair were both prepared to ride roughshod over the objections of the people of Gibraltar in order to get their way, describing Mr Blair's attitude to the...Read Full Story

Blair tells the party to focus on the centre-ground and links with the City, echoing Miliband's NS essay.Read Full Story

At long last, those damned illusive WMDs have been found! The discovery of a secret and undeclared stash of chemical weapons comprised of tons of mustard gas and chemical shells by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons will surely be enough to warrant an immediate and full vindication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair won’t it? Not quite. The problem is that at the time of the invasion of Iraq we weren’t quite looking in the right place. In this case, a miss is as good as...Read Full Story

Ala Elhoudiri (right) with Tony Blair Ala Elhoudiri of Torbay Inter-Faith Forum 4 Youth, produced a short film about how her faith inspires her life, entitled Hope and Justice, for the international Shorts 2011 competition of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Ala’s entry was shortlisted and she recently attended the award ceremony with her family at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Piccadilly, London. The judges included Dawn French, Hugh Jackman, Nik Powell and Lord...Read Full Story

Re: Got a question for Tony Blair ? Why does the UK government ignore the World Health Organization classification of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and why is it NOT treated as a serious neurological condition, and why is any biomedical research NOT funded, and why do you insist on treating people with ME in strictly psychological terms? How can you ignore people who suffer with this: Neurological/Cognitive Symptoms ●Easily confused ●Slow information processing ●Difficulty retrieving words...Read Full Story

Ben Delicious writes from London: I hear Kate Middleton is supposedly enjoying huge popularity among the British public. So huge in fact that Buckingham Palace is even worried that she would overshadow her husband, Prince William, and the rest of the Royal Family any time soon. Who says so? Well, if you read any article about the Duchess of Cambridge, as she is now known, you would find that hacks shower Katie with praise and call her a fashion icon who is as popular as Princess Diana was...Read Full Story

Tony Blair: It's not my fault she thinks I'm hot! Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of Britain, who is married to barrister, Cherie Blair, is being accused in the press of having a sexual affair with billion dollar Israeli heiress, Ofra Strauss. She is said to be a fan of Blair and has been seen in his company a number of times. Cherie Blair: I really don't want to have to knock them out The prominent Jewish website, Ynet News, published an article warnings Mrs. Blair that Strauss was...Read Full Story

Peter Hain says the then-Prime Minister was “contemptuous” toward the desire of Gibraltar residents to remain under the British flag and told how close Britain came to losing the rocky territory to the Spanish in 2002. Mr Hain tells in his memoirs, published on Monday, how he wanted to work to “do something about Gibraltar”, which has been a British overseas territory since 1713, as soon as he became Europe minister in June 2001. This was based on a “gut instinct that it as ridiculous in the...Read Full Story