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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionA million have rejected Blair’s knighthood. The establishment doesn’t careThe UK honours system is anything but honourable – it is a system of reward and backslapping for and by an exclusive...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy Tony Blair is just the right person to get Britain’s top honourBlair is responsible for countless war crimes and deaths – just the sort of thing the UK honours system was set up to reward
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohnson’s Brexit is inspired by Blair, Eden and Chamberlain - not ChurchillSurrounded by yes-men, cronies and dubious advisors, Johnson is trashing standards in public life and traditional...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKJohn Smith and the path Britain did not takeWhen we lost John Smith, we lost a leader who would have taken Labour and Britain down the path of radical and...
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Published in: HomeBlair to Corbyn: the new nowToday's British politics resemble the 1990s. But Corbyn's Labour is set to change that.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Contempt of parliament': after Chilcot, can Blair be prosecuted?The past 13 years have seen successive calls for former UK premier Tony Blair to be prosecuted for his part in the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDavid Cameron truly is the heir to Tony BlairDespite being widely despised by almost everyone, Blair is Cameron's role model – he worships him.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLies, half-truths and omissions on the road to war against IraqBlair repeatedly misled parliament and the public over the evidence behind Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDid Blair secretly promise Bush regime change in Iraq?There is significant evidence that he did.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEd Miliband's foreign policy would not be benignFor political reasons, support for British militarism has been seen by successive Labour leaderships as a key test...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMisdirection at the Chilcot InquiryThe Inquiry shows us that when asked a difficult question there is nearly always a way to deflect responsibility.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRighting a wrong: how to restore decency to the British Indian Ocean TerritoryPast injustices inflicted on the last outpost of empire need to be acknowledged – and redressed.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWTF Tony Blair?The former British Prime Minister is parading around the world acting as a spin doctor for murderous regimes and a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Chilcot Inquiry is in danger of losing credibilitySir Jeremy Heywood was Principal Private Secretary to Tony Blair; he must not be the man to decide which...
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Published in: HomeChina and Tony Blair: the wealth circuitChina is a favoured stopover for a former prime minister with money on his mind. But this is a game that his hosts...
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Published in: Freedom of InformationThe roots of Blair's hostility to Freedom of Information
That Tony Blair regrets introducing the Freedom of Information Act has been known for some time. But the force with...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe first Tony Blair book and the failure of New LabourWhen trying to understand what happened to New Labour, it is instructive to compare the spirit of progressive...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe coming Scottish revolution and Tony Blair’s memoirsThe reflections of The Economist and Tony Blair on Scottish devolution are united by a sense that Scotland matters...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTony Blair - An Alternative Journey
This is an alternative, and some would say more honest, rendition of Blair's journey performed by artist Julia Brosnan.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTony Blair and the imperial temptation in Britain and America
Ahead of Blair's testimony on the Iraq war, it is worth considering a recent exchange in the American blogosphere...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
