This website has long been advocating the view that the European Union needs effective and accountable leadership, most notably during the debates surrounding the European Convention in 2003 that led […]
Tony Blair: Europe needs a leader Read More »
You are invited to the launch of “New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown’s Logic of History”, by Dr Oliver Daddow 7 April 2011, 5.00 – 6.45 pm,
New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown’s Logic of History (7 April 2011) Read More »
By the standards of Tony Blair’s speeches on the battle for democracy in the Middle East, David Cameron’s speech to the Kuwait National Assembly on Tuesday was a welcome breath
Cameron in Kuwait: a breath of fresh air Read More »
One has to admire the elegance of Tony Blair’s argument in front of the Chilcot enquiry last Friday. He was recalled to the enquiry after his previous appearance a year
Too much information Read More »
Tony Blair’s much heralded memoirs published last week, contain a warning about occasions “where we confuse the state with the interests of the people”. Isn’t this the criticism that federalists
One of Tony Blair’s better lines in his evidence to the Chilcot inquiry on 29 January was that one should not ask the 2003 question about Iraq – how much
The 2003 question about Iran Read More »
I have already reported in an earlier blog entry on the Chilcot inquiry about flaws that emerged in the strategy of using the threat of invasion to press Saddam Hussein
A failure of strategy in Iraq Read More »
Aneurin Bevan famously declared at a Labour party conference that “The language of priorities is the religion of socialism”. This will not be a blog post about socialism – I
The language of priorities Read More »
Historian Simon Schama has a marvellous knack of explaining the big themes of history through the life stories of selected individuals. For example, in his “History of Britain”, he describes
Blair vs Juncker for president of the European Council Read More »
Sometimes the simplest questions are the best ones. I was asked last week, in response to some newspaper suggestions that Tony Blair was being talked about as a possible president
Blair for the Commission? Read More »
