Tony Blair: Success or Failure

It looks like Mr. Blair has started a media war with his recent remarks concerning News media. This article from the Times online demonstrates this." “Bliar, the mendacious, spin-obsessed, manipulating fraudster who lied to take us to war, undermined our independent civil...

G8: The big moves, the best photos

Last week's G8 summit in Germany has now gone to blackout (a la the Sopranos). Now that calm is restored, and most of the protesters have gone home to upload their photos to Flickr--or to the hospital, if they...

Unemployment: Forgotten Issue?

According to the opinion polls unemployment is not an issue. But ask any of the thousands of people who have just lost their jobs or their houses recently, or are earning less than they were five years ago, and you would find a completely different story. Carry out a poll in...

Removal Men Arrive At Downing St

"Removal men have arrived at No 10 Downing St to pack away Tony Blair's possessions ahead of his departure. A spokesman confirmed that a van spotted at the rear of the building residence was there as part of the "orderly transition" of power. Mr Blair leaves office on 27...

Chancellor Congratulates Salmond

"Chancellor Gordon Brown has phoned Alex Salmond to congratulate him on becoming first minister of Scotland. The Labour prime minister-in-waiting made the call four weeks after the SNP emerged as the largest party in the Holyrood election. The first minister's office...

"Bush is the Worst President in History," says Carter

"Bush is the worst...in history", said former President Carter; a man whose dismal failure as president is exceeded only by his incompetence as a former president. Once again the peanut farmer from...

No, Blair! America's parting gift to Britain's PM

Blair's last meeting with Bush as proved an absolute failure as usual:"As Tony Blair left Washington yesterday for his last visit as Prime Minister, the Bush administration was acting to scupper international efforts to combat climate change. Less than 24 hours earlier, Mr...

Blair Revisits What Will Be His Legacy: Iraq

Like him or loathe him, Tony Blair has indeed changed the face of Britain. His domestic acheivements and failures, however, are eclipsed by his complicity in the invasion of Iraq. In the twilight of his leadership, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair paid tribute to the troops he...

Carter on Blair: "Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient"

British BBC Radio 4 talk radio has today featured the strongest attack yet on outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Former US President Carter, in a radio interview broadcast earlier today, said that...

Unborn babies targeted in crackdown on criminality

"Blair launches policy imported from US to intervene during pregnancy to head off antisocial behaviourUnborn babies judged to be at most risk of social exclusion and turning to criminality are to be targeted in a controversial new scheme to be promoted by Downing Street...

Better Or Worse?

Tony Blair has dramatically changed the face of the United Kingdom. The good, the bad, and the major changes to laws and fines, Labour has introduced 3,000 new criminal offenses.These are just a speck of the...

Germany Kisses Constitutional Rights Good Bye

German news magazine, Der Stern, reports substantiated rumors in its Tuesday online edition that the G8 summit, planned in early June in North Eastern German sea spa of Heiligendamm, will turn a whole federal...

Tony Blair and his wife Cherie to make 80 million dollars on lectures and boo...

Mrs Blair has already appeared on the professional lecture circuit. She reportedly charged $200,000 for a tour of Australia and $60,000 for a single event in the US, BBC reports. Cherie Blair, repeatedly accused...

CTA shooting kills teen

"A young man who boarded a CTA bus in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood opened fire Thursday afternoon, killing one student and injuring four others, officials said. The man got on an eastbound 103rd Street bus at Halsted Street and pulled a gun as the bus neared Lowe Avenue...

Brown era off to an obscure start

British Chancellor Gordon Brown launched his bid to become Prime Minister of the UK with a press conference that saw part of his head obscured by a teleprompter. The man who will almost certainly succeed Tony...

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