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Tony Blair

since 2025 › Jan › 22 (Wed) @ 13:00 UTC

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14 hours ago

Kirsty Coventry is now the most powerful person in sport and faces a bulging in-tray | Sean Ingle

found 2025 › Jun › 23 (Mon) @ 08:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Bach’s successor is already making a positive impression but will need all her resolve at mammoth organisation

A new day has broken, has it not? For several reasons, Tony Blair’s 1997 election victory…

13 days ago

Civil service headcount hits 550,000 - the highest since Tony Blair was PM - despite Labour's vow to squeeze numbers

found 2025 › Jun › 10 (Tue) @ 14:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The workforce grew by 2,000 in the first three months of this year to 550,000 people, according to official figures.

20 days ago

Robo-doc will see you now: Tony Blair backs AI medics and nurses as he brands civil service 'a conspiracy of inertia' that 'suffocates' innovation

found 2025 › Jun › 03 (Tue) @ 10:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The former prime minister claimed AI could have an 'absolutely transformative' impact on public services by making them better, cheaper and more efficient.

23 days ago

Ed Miliband attacks 'defeatist' Tony Blair after ex-PM warned Labour's Net Zero is 'doomed to fail'

found 2025 › May › 31 (Sat) @ 00:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

In a high-profile intervention last month, Mr Blair savaged the Government's obsession with Net Zero, saying voters were being asked to make 'financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle'.

24 days ago

‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming-of-age tale

found 2025 › May › 30 (Fri) @ 12:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s…

34 days ago

Half of British adults should be able to get their hands on fat jabs through the post, says Tony Blair

found 2025 › May › 20 (Tue) @ 01:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Researchers at the Tony Blair Institute have called for the eligibility criteria for the drugs to 'drastically lowered', making them available to people who are overweight but not yet obese.

47 days ago

How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action

found 2025 › May › 07 (Wed) @ 08:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Even before his call for a net zero ‘reset’, there had been criticism of ex-PM’s lucrative links with fossil fuel nations

From the lush gardens of the Four Seasons luxury hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh, ami…

48 days ago

Welsh Labour leader launches broadside at Starmer amid panic over Reform threat in Senedd elections - as Tony Blair warns party is doomed if it just 'manages the status quo'

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 08:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Baroness Morgan will use a speech marking a year until Senedd elections that she 'will not stay silent' when the PM makes 'decisions that we think will harm Welsh communities'.

49 days ago

First Tony Blair and now David Blunkett: Ex-home secretary becomes the latest Labour grandee to warn against Keir Starmer's Net Zero push

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 11:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The former home secretary said a failure to reduce energy prices in Britain would see Labour's green policies become 'electorally toxic'.

54 days ago

It’s the anti net-zero, anti-woke Tony Blair – how was this man ever considered a progressive? | Zoe Williams

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 15:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The former PM has form when it comes to pushing corporate interests and meeting populists halfway

When Tony Blair came out this week to say current net zero policies were “doomed to fail”, there was s…

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