Blair and the Middle East
The analysis of the Middle East crisis set out in Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles seems to me to be confused, distracted, even almost deranged. Read the speech here, […]
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Failure in his own terms
I thought when I saw the advance billing of Tony Blair’s speech at Georgetown University last Friday (which you can read here) that I would have some interesting thoughts on
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Guantanamo all along
I’m not sure what to make of Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday. Asked about the closure of Guantanamo Bay, Tony Blair said “I agree that it is an anomaly
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Magnificent and typical
Tony Blair’s speech to the Australian parliament earlier today deserves reading. (You can read it here.) It got most attention in the press for its remarks about anti-American feeling in
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Blair and the founding fathers
More on Tony Blair’s speech in Oxford last Thursday (which you can read here). He declares that: “The vision is the one I share with Europe’s founders: an ever closer
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Mr Blair goes to Brussels
James Stewart gave the performance of his life as a political outsider arriving at the seat of power and determined to play by his rules rather than those of the
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This is no crisis, not by European standards
By Nina Fishman The Editor Financial Times 22 June 2005 Dear Sir, Martin Wolf claimed recently that the FT is the European newspaper, read by the political leaders throughout the
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The British problem with Europe
By Brendan Donnelly I take as my starting-point the personal position of Mr Blair. I believe that he is sincere in his desire to make the British people feel more
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Taking George W Bush seriously
By John Williams A review of: The president of good and evil: taking George W Bush seriously” by Peter Singer (Granta Books, 2004) “Plan of attack” by Bob Woodward (Simon
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Federalism in the post-cold-war era
By John Williams A review of: “Tony Blair: the making of a world leader” by Philip Stephens (Viking, 2004) “The Bubble of American Supremacy” by George Soros (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
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