John Rentoul: Freudian Slip by Proxy

I have identified a new medical condition. In Martin Kettle's excellent online article today about Tony Blair's attitude to Gordon Brown's irresponsible overspending, he quotes this passage from Blair ...- 07/01/2011, Commentators

John Rentoul: Groundhog Hate 2011

Oh, so there is still life in the piranha tank. I tossed in a casual update about a taxpayer-funded Blair-hating film and seem to have stirred the Blair-haters rather than the people who pay their tax ...- 29/12/2010, Commentators

John Rentoul: Best Subsidised Blair-Hating Film

Publicly-funded Blair-hating film wins publicly-funded European Film Academy prize. The story of The Ghost, Roman Polanksi's film (right) of Robert Harris's self-loathing book, gets worse. I have prev ...- 27/12/2010, Commentators

John Rentoul: Blair (right) and Obama (left)

I have been invited to comment on anonymous gossip. Kevin Maguire says in the New Statesman: The rightward trajectory of Tony Blair, multimillionaire, has led him to an American la-la land inhabited b ...- 09/12/2010, Commentators

John Rentoul: Where Oh Where is Tony Blair?

Blair Supporter detects BBC bias in its coverage of the Remembrance service at the Cenotaph today. Although this photograph is by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. (Blair is directly behind Nick Clegg.) Meanw ...- 14/11/2010, Commentators

John Rentoul: Blair and the Problem of Muslim Integration

Tony Blair's article in the Wall Street Journal today takes further the bluntness that is evident in his memoir, A Journey, itself a revelation. First he direct about the problem of integration: We ha ...- 09/11/2010, Commentators

John Rentoul: Is Cherie Blair too wilful?

Number 421 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No is asked by Alice Instone in a letter to today's Independent. She painted the picture of Cherie (right) which was reported on 4 November: ...- 06/11/2010, Commentators

Blair to talk at cleaning show

The former prime minister Tony Blair will be the keynote speaker at an event organised by the ISSA, The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association. - 06/11/2010, UK Politics

John Rentoul: "Of Those Who by Their Crimes Come to be Princes"

Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff, says of his new book, The New Machiavelli: It is not another memoir of the Blair years; there are enough of those already. Both parts of that sentence are ...- 27/10/2010, Commentators

Cherie uses eBay to sell Tony's autograph for £10

With her QC's salary and a multimillionaire husband who commands five-figure sums for after-dinner speeches, Cherie Blair could hardly be described as hard up. But in these troubled economic times, it seems that every little helps. - 27/10/2010, News

Ben Chu: Adonis trashes Blair and Brown reshuffles

Utterly scathing assessment by Andrew Adonis on governance during the later Blair and Brown years in the Financial Times (pay wall) today: "In 2009, I became the fifth transport secretary in barely th ...- 20/10/2010, Commentators

Russell Razzaque: He out-Blaired Blair

It was a speech that hit Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Mandelson and the entire New Labour hierarchy – including his own brother David - over the head with their own playbook. Ed Miliband showed in one po ...- 29/09/2010, Commentators

John Rentoul: Special Relationship with Reality

I didn't watch The Special Relationship, the television drama of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton's dealings over Kosovo. Michael Sheen is a good actor, but his Blair irritates me, partly because he makes ...- 19/09/2010, Commentators

Ben Chu: Blair gets even tougher on crime

As I've noted before, Tony Blair's anti-liberalism seems to have hardened since leaving office. And I've just caught up with this troubling passage from his interview with Mary Riddell in The Telegrap ...- 15/09/2010, New Articles

Ben Chu: Blair gets even tougher on crime

As I've noted before, Tony Blair's anti-liberalism seems to have hardened since leaving office. And I've just caught up with this troubling passage from his interview with Mary Riddell in The Telegrap ...- 15/09/2010, Commentators