Read my posts featuring Tony Blair, Labour Prime Minister 1997-2007, when he was succeeded by his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.
Explaining Cameron’s Coalition is the latest in the series of general election analysis by MORI’s Robert Worcester and Roger Mortimore, this time joined by two other authors. … Read the full post »
The cover of Bruce Riedel’s The Search for Al Qaeda shows a group of armed men working their way up a hillside overlooking a beautiful valley that stretches away to rolling hills. It captures the wonder and the tragedy of Afghanistan in one frame. … Read the full post »
The more that comes out about how Tony Blair and Gordon Brown behaved, the more you wonder quite what world they were living in. … Read the full post »
The so-called “Tony Blair Demon eyes” Conservative billboard poster from the 1990s has a well-established place in the history of British political advertising. … Read the full post »
At the book’s title suggests, Peter Mandelson’s memoirs The Third Man do not hold back from placing himself not only at the heart of New Labour but also at its top, variously using the phrases the three musketeers or the triumvirate to describe himself and the two Prime Ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. … Read the full post »
During the 2010 general election campaign, I highlighted how TonyBlair4Labour, the official vehicle for Tony Blair’s campaigning on behalf of the Labour Party, looked to be illegally exporting data overseas. … Read the full post »
It’s better that Labour figures are starting to tell the truth in public about the Brown-Blair infighting years than if they were continuing to claim they’d always got along fine. … Read the full post »
Sunder Katwala of the Fabians has a thought-provoking post about the role of Kier Hardie in Labour’s current political traditions and attitudes towards working with other parties. … Read the full post »
Whether driven by circumstance or long-term plan, the reaction of David Cameron to the general election result has been an attempt to realign British politics. … Read the full post »
Tony Blair’s site looks to be storing in the US private data given by site visitors – but without the necessary legal steps to allow such data exports to be made. … Read the full post »