Tony Blair
Praise: Former Wales rugby player Gareth Thomas received widespread support when he admitted publicly that he was gay in 2009
Connections
Quotes
It's fair to say the prime minister has spoken to Tony Blair several times on foreign policy issues. It's not unusual for prime ministers to talk to former prime ministers, particularly ones with significant international roles.
The scale of upheaval means, in my judgment, we can’t stand apart from it ... Although short-term political pressure may go for complete disengagement, when I’m there and I see the potential for trouble in this region to spread far beyond, I think it’s absolutely essential that we’re there.
The issue at heart is whether we have the courage necessary to take the long-term decisions of policy over the short-term politicsMore quotes »
Newsday's coverage
-
Blair testifies in media ethics probe
-- Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday that he couldn't stand up to Britain 's media tycoons while in power, telling an official media ethics inquiry that doing so could have dragged his administration into a political quagmire.Blair's testimony shed Read more »
Around the web
-
Now you see it: Temporary terminal for Olympics
protesters demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the day former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was appearing at the Leveson media ethics inquiry in London, Monday, May 28, 2012. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to be grilled 4:13 PM from Salt Lake Tribune Read more »
-
Owen Jones: It's time to demolish the myth about Tony Blair
will struggle to find more devout supporters of Tony Blair than those at the top of the Conservative leadership. "I can't hold it back any more; I love Tony!" Michael Gove once exclaimed. David Cameron famously described himself as "the heir to Blair", and 3:15 PM from The Independent Read more »
-
Law and order: Cockeyed optimists
years Tony Blair’s government bewailed the mysterious “reassurance gap”—the fact that, although crime was falling sharply, people insisted on thinking the contrary. Recently, though, the reverse has been true. The steady year-on-year decline in overall crime 11:05 AM from Economist Read more »
-
Gay marriage in merry England: Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for same-sex marriage, but most Brits are wary...
of their commitment and avail themselves of the same legal rights as married couples. When then-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government introduced that legislation, it insisted that although the new scheme gave same-sex couples equal rights and privileges to 11:02 AM from The New Advent Read more »
-
Maine man claims backlash for arrest
teacher at the school for eight years. The 53-year-old Reichard was charged with disorderly conduct while protesting Tony Blair's commencement address at Colby. He calls Blair a "war criminal." He says his treatment is reminiscent of "the anti-communist witch 7:43 AM from CBS-WGME Portland Maine Read more »
