Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Thursday, October 08, 2026

The Joy of Six 1588

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"Tony Blair once observed that the first step from opposition to government is an honest analysis of why you are in opposition. Kemi Ba...
Monday, August 17, 2026

GUEST POST Why has the HS2 project been such a disaster?

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Peter Chambers goes in search of enlightenment about the ironic low-speed train crash that is HS2. Most people I meet have an opinion on HS...
Monday, August 10, 2026

Lib Dems fight to save independent scrutiny of the NHS

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Embed from Getty Images The Liberals Democrats are fighting government proposals to reduce independent scrutiny of the National Health Servi...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1537

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David Howarth reminds us that both Tony Blair and Keir Starmer said pluralist things in opposition, only to go back on them in power: ...
Friday, May 29, 2026

The Joy of Six 1525

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"Unlike Blair, he was deeply and passionately engaged in the current moment. He had not fossilised his world view. He was intellectuall...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1524

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"You will know them. They are in every policy working group, every conference fringe, every strategy call. They are the people who hear...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Shabana Mahmood shares her vision of total state surveillance with the Tony Blair Institute

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Embed from Getty Images How did you celebrate Christmas? At the Tony Blair Institute they asked Shaban Mahmood along to their Christmas rece...
Sunday, November 02, 2025

The Kinks: Autumn Almanac

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Time to get his posted before autumn turns to winter. Autumn Almanac is a non-album single from 1967 that made no. 3 in the UK singles chart...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Tony Blair's school was stolen from the poor children of Edinburgh

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Tony Blair attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, which is often called "the Eton of Scotland". I've come across a footnote abo...
Friday, October 03, 2025

The Joy of Six 1417

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"Muscular patriotism of the flag waving variety marries rather well with aggressive nationalism - and we’re seeing quite a bit of that ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The Joy of Six 1407

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"The puzzle for me is what drives Labour politicians (and some others) around the ID card loop? What is the enduring appeal of ID cards...
Friday, May 02, 2025

How Tony Blair won Runcorn for Reform UK

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People vote all sorts of ways in parliamentary by-elections for all sorts of reasons. But when the candidate has a majority of only six vote...
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Friday, April 04, 2025

Tony Blair meets Phil Harding in 2003

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One was a universally loved and admired figure: the other had been Pri... You can see where this is going.
Friday, January 10, 2025

An interview with Carl Cashman, leader of the Lib Dem group on Liverpool City Council

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Read on Substack Follow the link to Substack to hear Aaron Ellis interviewing Carl Cashman, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Liverpoo...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Thought for the Day: Lord Macaulay on coalitions

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I've just been sorting out some old papers, including a folder of press cuttings that I obviously thought might come in useful one day f...
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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Keir Starmer, Lord Alli and the good chap theory of government

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Lord Hewart - see my review of Neil Hickman's book on him in the current Liberator - had little time for the argument that, because the...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

The Joy of Six 1269

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"Labour’s recent creative industries plan, published in March, avoids any talk about new horizons or radical change, either in the coun...
Monday, August 26, 2024

GUEST POST An Oasis reunion? Have we not suffered enough?

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The threatened reunion of the Oasis brothers is a stark warning of the potential breakout of Britpop across the entire UK region, warns Stua...
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

The Joy of Six 1247

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"The party’s organizing basis since the first day Trump took office has been to treat him as a civic emergency. This is the basis for d...
Tuesday, April 09, 2024

GUEST POST A book that explains why Britain voted for Brexit

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Peter Chambers argues that Brexitland by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford provides a model that explains why Leave was able to win the ref...
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