Tony Blair
Dr Labourstein’s monster
Knighthood or no knighthood, Tony Blair will never be re-habilitated
Christopher Hitchens: the last cool columnist
Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
How New Labour made Boris Johnson
Twenty years ago, the Conservative Party was at its lowest ebb. But on the night of New Labour’s greatest triumph, one man promised to revive their fortunes…
There’s nothing so ex as an ex-PM
Rejected and reviled former prime ministers should stay in the political graveyard where they belong
Tony goes to Holyrood
The Bumper Book of Scottish Political Counterfactuals: In which Tony Blair takes his rightful place as First Minister
Blair is back. And so is Prudence
Labour will take a long view on borrowing in order to avoid being the party of big tax rises
The horror versus the farce
25 years on from Srebrenica and our Balkan interventions
Old school reformer
Eric understood that the system had to stop being a relic of the past
Harry, Meghan (and Jeremy) want to be alone
LA may not be the place for true socialist privacy
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
