Tony Blair

Afghanistan – reflections on the strategy in the light of three more deaths.

July 14, 2010

I remember the lesson very well. As young potential officers, we had been told to assemble by the statute at 8.00 am sharp. We duly assembled on time, sitting around the base and on the adjacent wall, as they knew we would. Enter the immaculate Colour Sergeant Reece at the allotted hour, and a rollicking [...]

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The “Ghost of Tony Blair”

January 13, 2010

The “Ghost of Tony Blair” jibed confidently into the Chilcot Narrows yesterday, his lightweight Spinnaker billowing to the fore, filled with the hot, arid, air of defiance. The Spinnaker had carried him safely past the final marker in the Hutton and Butler enquiries, setting him free to profitably cruise off the Middle East coast, being [...]

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Mandelson Pulling Nails………

September 20, 2009

Peter Mandelson’s loose lips have been flapping again. This time they have served to rub salt in the wounds inflicted by Adam Boulton’s new book “Tony’s Ten Years” which was merely a tad contemptuous of Gordon Brown’s ability to ‘bounce back’ in a new election. It has long been suspected that Mandelson’s new found fondness [...]

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Inexorable Choices.

June 10, 2009
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So, the wrong kind of voters (pace Hain) have elected the wrong kind of MPs (pace Howard) under our great democracy that we seek to export around the world; by force where necessary. After ninety minutes deliberation, a council of partially unelected members, presided over by an unelected Prime Minister, is going to rectify this. [...]

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The Power of Prayer meets the New World Order.

February 4, 2009

The son-of-the-Manse, Gordon Brown, has been pipped to the post in the ‘lets pray with Obama’ stakes. Our revered Leader is not to be honoured by being the first to shake the hallowed Presidential paw – despite the BBC showing misleading footage of him walking side by side with Obama on the BBC 6pm news, [...]

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