Tony Blair

Tony Blair (Major World Leaders) 托尼 布莱尔(世界主要领导人系列)# Author: Bonnie Hinman# Format:PDF 1.3MB# Page Count: 112 pages# Publisher: Chelsea House Publications; Library Binding edition (August 2002)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0791069397# ISBN-13: 978-0791069394Hinman's earlier Modern World Leaders profile of Blair appeared before two critical developments: the controversy o

Former English prime minister Tony Blair wants to make a difference in important issues such as global poverty and conflict. Excellent! There's just one problem. His proposed solution is a faith-based foundation, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. But why is this a problem if his goals are laudable?Blair's goals for the new foundation are threefold:Tackle poverty and war,Improve awareness between wo

Tony Blair accused of War Crimes Anthony Charles Lynton Blair on Trial in The Hagueby David Halpin war crimes photos removed David Halpin looks at the litany of crimes for which former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will have to account sooner or later. On the same day the BBC reported that former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz was to go on trial after f

Former British prime minister Tony Blair is launching his new Faith Foundation whose aim is to increase dialogue and interaction between people of different religions. Blair was an Anglican and shortly after leaving office converted to the Catholic religion. He mentioned that as a political leader he relied upon religion during difficult times. “The [...]

AP - Tony Blair considered not running for a third term as British prime minister but his wife and others persuaded him it would be seen as an admission that he had been wrong about the Iraq war, she says in her newly published autobiography.

This Mahathir fellow is really something. He could never keep his mouth shut, could he?After banging fellow Muslims and Malays in the likes of Anwar Ibrahim, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib in the last few weeks, he is now going into overdrive all poised to attack George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard!Oh dear!I told you folks one time ago that there is something very wrong with Mahathir. Do you believe me now?Abu Qatadah bin Rib'i, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Whenever a bier passed before him, he said: He is the one to rest in peace and the one with (the departure of him) whom others will become relieved. They asked: Messenger of Allah, who is the one to rest in peace and the one from whom others will be relieved? Upon this h

Tony Blair, el ex primer ministro británico que ha ganado U$S 1 millón dando conferencias desde que dejó el cargo en junio, vivió un embarazoso episodio en un tren, en el que viajaba sin billete y sin dinero para abonarlo. Blair viajaba en un tren que lo llevaba al aeropuerto londinense de Heathrow, donde abordaría un avión con destino a Estados Unidos. Durante el trayecto, como es habitual, pasó el guarda pidiendo los boletos. Al llegar a Blair, el empleado lo reconoció de inmediato y luego del saludo le pidió su boleto. El ex líder laborista buscó inútilmente en todos sus bolsillos el ticket de viaje. Como en casos de emergencia es posible abonar el viaje estando a bordo, buscó ahora las 24,50 libras necesarias, pero tampoco tenía dinero. Seguir leyendo... >>

He had a lame excuse. He doesn't carry money, or at least not this time. However, the guard on the Heathrow Express allowed him to carry on, as someone paid up for him. OK for some. The press have had a field day, pointing out the ironies of it all. But I like the overseas press the best, especially The Hindu. This is what they think of "the 54-year-old mega-rich Middle East envoy"!Tony Blair may have earned millions since leaving office last year but when it came to paying his own train fare, the former British Prime Minister was found short of cash. The 54-year-old mega-rich Middle East envoy recently jumped on the Heathrow Express which allows passengers to buy a ticket on board.But when the ticket collector came round to first class, a red-faced Blair could not cough up the 24.50 pound

La nueva película que está armando el director Oliver Stone es un docu-metraje inspirado en la vida del hombre más polémico del planeta: George W. Bush. Bajo el título simple y contundente de W, el propio Stone (quien ya se ha entrometido en personjes políticos como el aclamado thriller JFK) ha salido a aclarar que [...]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for faith to be given a central role in tackling the world's problems.Mr Blair said faith should be rescued from extremism and be a force for progress, in his first speech on faith since becoming a Catholic.He said politicians found it difficult to talk about faith because they "may be considered weird".His speech was accompanied by a noisy anti-war protest and silent vigil by Catholic peace group Pax Christi.Mr. Blair, who converted to Catholicism months after stepping down as prime minister last summer and is now a Middle East envoy, told an audience of 1,600 at Westminster Cathedral he was often asked if faith was important to his politics."If you are someone 'of faith' it is the focal point of belief in your life. There is no conceiva

Heather Mills, estranged wife of Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney, lied about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair offering her peerage, says a media report.In 2001 Mills claimed she was promised to be made a "people’s peer" and bragged that it was Blair’s initiative with support from Lord Macdonald, thesun.co.uk reports. She went on to reveal that she wasn’t sure about becoming Baroness Mills because it was "a bit odd". An ITV documentary exposes the claim as a lie. The programme titled "McCartney vs McCartney: The Ex Files" interviewed the three Lords with names like Macdonald and none could say that they even met her. Mills made the clam to Sunday Times writer Jasper Gerard and he told the programme it was "incredible".He s

The former prime minister has been joining international experts on climate change in a bid to drive forward efforts to reduce global carbon emissions.Mr Blair said: "We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change. There are few if any, genuine doubters left."Even on the mildest application of the precautionary principles, failure to act on climate change now would be deeply and unforgivably irresponsible."

The thinking was: You get a deal and all falls into place. But, Blair notes, no deal was ever cut. Unlike the Good Friday Agreement over Northern Ireland, the only agreement has been to agree to reach an agreement.So the former British prime minister is seeking to replay the original music. The way forward, he argues, is not to try to cut a deal on an agreement first: "For the Palestinian state to succeed, you need to start getting the reality of that state on the ground before political negotiations can be meaningful. The state is not about an agreement, but about Palestinian capabilities in handling security and their economy."Every Palestinian-Israeli peace effort has been killed off by the sound of war. It's been as if violence is irremediably built in to peace-making. Instead of the e

Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged the U.S., Japan and European nations to make ``revolutionary'' cuts to greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.``Since poorer nations will see their emissions rise as they industrialize, and since the world population may well grow from 6 to 9 billion, emissions in the richer nations will have to fall close to zero,'' Blair said at energy and environmental talks in Chiba City near Tokyo.Ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations and representatives from 12 other countries discussed how to finance technological efforts to tackle climate change, and the basis for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012.U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases total 20 tons a year per person, twice as much as in Europe and Japan, Blair s

Tony Blair Coming to Teach Americans about FaithTony Blair is to teach students at Yale University in the US when he leads a seminar on faith and globalization.The former prime minister has been appointed as a fellow at Yale and will begin teaching next year.The prestigious Connecticut university said the work was related to Mr. Blair's Faith Foundation which will be launched later this year.Read the rest of the story here…

This clip shows part 1 of ex-MI5 Officer, Annie Machon speaking at a "Trial of Tony Blair". The trial was a fringe event at the Labour Party Spring Conference held in Manchester, UK on 12 March 2004--organised by the Stop the War Coalition.Tony Blair was staying at the plush Midland Hotel in central Manchester less than a hundred yards from the hall where the trial took place. In between was a veritable army of police, armed officers from the Tactical Aid UNit (TAU), and the Special Branch (the UK's political police). Blair had of course been invited to the meeting to defend himself, but, curiously, declined to attend.The case for the prosecution was presented by Chris Coverdale of Legal Action Against War (LAAW), former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler and his partner Annie Machon--also a

GAZA STRIP…12/18/07 6:15pm EST…Speaking to reporters while being shuffled from one armored car to another, former British Prime Minister, and current "Mid-East Peace Envoy," Tony Blair, bristled with anger as he stated "I hate this job . . . I was told I'd only have to do it a couple months . . . and then I'd be made partner in an investment banking firm in Switzerland . . . so why am I still

HEXUS.gaming Tony Blair, Alistair Darling and a virtual Paris HiltonHEXUS.gaming, UK - 53 minutes agoIn a bizarre attempt to appeal to youngsters, The Serious Policy Game includes a virtual representation of American socialite Paris Hilton and a Master Of …Virtual British government goes online Inquirer all 2 news articles Read the entire original post via

Tony Blair’s name has been bandied about, over the last month, as a “great candidate”, as Gordon Brown said, for “President of Europe”, since the new EU Reform Treaty was agreed on 19th October in Lisbon. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, actually said that Blair was, From www.usatoday.com: “the most European of all Britons.” This, the man who brought us to an illegal war against Iraq, knowing that the “evidence” was very thin if it could be called evidence at all… He has a history of “exercising spin” or telling porkies. Lets take a look back over some things “Mr B Liar” has said before about Europe for example: Against integration with Europe.. Fighting the 1982 Beaconsfield by-election, Tony Blair declared in an election leaflet: “Above all, the EEC takes away Britain’s freedom to follow the economic polices we need.” In the same by-election, in a local paper, the South Bucks

Following his termination of office as third-term Prime Minister of Great Britain, and replaced by the Conservative Gordon Brown, Tony Blair wishes for a new lifestyle, a cleansing. In a recent interview, the moderate ‘New’ Labour Party member has stated his complete withdrawal from British politics and the isle all together. A close relative of the [...]

Afghanistan has always been the forgotten war, if it can be called a war at all. Ever since the US decided its real fight was a few countries to the south-west Afghanistan actually seems more like a deadly stalemate. Increasingly, that stalemate has become intolerable to the Nato countries fighting in the country. Clearly, at this rate it is a no-win situation. What to do? Canada requests special UN envoy for Afghanistan makes a lot of sense, someone “along the lines of former British prime minister Tony Blair’s mission in the Middle East” — although how much have we heard from him lately.  Condoleezza Rice’s peace initiative, due to take place within the next two months, already seems dead in the water. But the request for the special envoy, if nothing else, is a useful gauge to test how seriously the UN is taking the theatre and could the envoy prove useful at recruiting other countries to get involved, especially Muslim countries which so far have t

I went onto The Jewish Week and looked at the poll they had up today, asking, "Do you think former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a wise choice as the new Mideast envoy?" Here are the results:229 people said No194 people said YesAnd here's my explanation as to why he's a bad choice: because, simply put, he goes by the approach of appeasement, all too common in Britain nowadays. Boo for Tony phony!

Ex-Premier Tony Blair ist heute in seiner neuen Tätigkeit als Sonderbeauftragter des Nahost-Quartetts vom israelischen Präsidenten Shimon Peres empfangen worden. Am Nachmittag bereits reist Blair weiter ins Westjordanland um sich mit dem palästinensischen Präsidenten Mahmoud Abbas zu treffen. Tony Blairs Aufgabe ist der Aufbau der palästinensischen Institutionen und Wirtschaft voranzutreiben. Tony Blair hat keine Berechtigung als Vermittler im Konflikt zwischen Palästina und Israels zu fungieren.Vorgänger von Tony Blair war der ehemalige Weltbank-Chef James Wolfensohn. Dieser legte das Amt nieder, weil das sogenannte Roadmap nicht eingehalten wurde und er deshalb keine Chance mehr sah, etwas positives im Konflikt zwischen den beiden Ländern zu erwirken.Nach dem Treffen mit Abbas wird Blair die Rückreise nach Jerusalem antreten, wo Ihn Ministerpräsidenten Ehud Olmert für weitere Gespräche erwartet.

Tony Blair:‘The idea that as a Muslim in this country that you don’t have the freedom to express your religion or your views, I mean you’ve got far more freedom in this country than you do in most Muslim countries’…‘The reason we are finding it hard to win this battle is that we’re not actually fighting it properly. We’re not actually standing up to these people and saying, “It’s not just your methods that are wrong, your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn’t justified.’…‘When I’m trying to change the law in order to make it easier to deport people who engage in terrorism — the idea that that’s an assault on hundreds of years of British civil liberties is completely absurd. Some of what is written on this is loopy-loo in its extremism.’When are we going to understand that we have the same problems emerging here? Tax payer funded foot baths will not be enough for these people. Far too many American Muslims do not wa

Will Blair help or hurt in his new job as an envoy? That's what this JTA article is asking, but I think the answers can pretty much be figured out:Tony Blair's frequent calls for the need to create a Palestinian state and his vital support for the Iraq war raise major questions for officials in Jerusalem and Arab capitals.WASHINGTON (JTA) – Tony Blair brings a lot to his new job as a peace envoy: His hands-on experience as British prime minister in dealing with Middle East issues, the confidence President Bush places in him as a loyal supporter of the Iraq war, a long-held view that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is vital to stabilizing the region.The question in this case is whether "a lot" constitutes useful experience or debilitating baggage.Answer: he will only bring baggage that we in Israel will have to carry as our horrid burden.And I don't agree at all with this article that says that Blair is leaving a legacy of support for Israel. Not at all.

Today, Tony Blair hands over Number 10 Downing Street to Gordon Brown. Blair has served 10 years. Blair has been at the helm during 2 major tragedies. The first was the untimely death of Princess Diana. Tony Blair gained immense popularity following Diana’s death by healing the public’s perception of the Queen following that tragedy. In terms of public relations, his handling of the Queen and Diana’s death was probably his greatest victory. The next tragedy, 9-11 and the subsequent war in Iraq, did irrepairable harm to Tony Blair’s stature. Tony Blair not only concurred with George Bush’s overt deceptions that led to the war, he even joined Bush in pushing the disatrous agenda to topple Saddam Hussein. In light of Blair’s role in Iraq, I believe it is a huge mistake picking Blair to lead the peace effort in the Middle East as the envoy for the US, Russia, the UN and the EU. Not only has Blair contributed to the bedlam in the Middle East, Brita

Today is Tony Blair's last full day in office. Many elected officials try to push through last minute legislation on their last day, or spend it wandering through Buckingham Palace or kicking themselves for ever going into Iraq. But not Tony, Tony is currently meeting with Arnold. No, it is not a joke. Apparently they met to discuss environmental issues. I'm sure Arnold brought his dictionary just in case Blair used words with more than two syllables.All jokes aside, Schwarzenegger and Blair are both very concerned with climate change. Someone has to be.

David Aaronovitch of timesonline.co.uk writes: “The departing Prime Minister is Bliar, the mendacious, spin-obsessed, manipulating fraudster who lied to take us to war, undermined our independent civil service, took cash from the rich and rewarded them with peerages and favourable decisions, and suborn our politics.” “This Bliar is also, at best a naive, messianic prating fool when [...]

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie are shown naked in a large charcoal drawing by and artist named Michael Sandle.  This drawing is going to be displayed at London’s Royal Academy of Arts to be apart of their yearly summer exhibition. The title of the drawing is “Iraq Triptych”, and shows Tony Blair and Cherie covering their genitals, which is represents biblical paintings of Adam and Eve walking out of the Garden of Eden in shame.  In the drawing, however, Blair and Cherie are not walking out of Eden, but instead are shown outside of the popular black door on 10 Downing Street along with body parts and skulls. Sandle told reporters, “I wasn’t going to submit this year but I suddenly felt overcome with anger at the way Blair has messed up.”  He also accused Blair of vanity because he supported the US in the invasion of Iraq and said that Blair “doesn’t appear to feel a twinge of conscience about Iraq because he is

By Tony Blair - What I've learned - The EconomistExcerpt:"TEN years ago, if you had told me I would spend a significant part of my premiership on foreign policy, I would have been surprised, a little shocked and probably, politically, somewhat alarmed. Even today, we all run for office concentrating on domestic issues. "Foreign" policy rarely wins votes, and can easily lose them. Yet nowadays the reality is increasingly that we are obliged as leaders to think, work and act internationally."http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9257593Tony BlairAlex

WASHINGTON — Tony Blair will declare himself a Roman Catholic on leaving Downing Street, according to a priest close to him. Father Michael Seed, who is known for bringing high-profile politicians and aristocrats into the Catholic fold and who says Mass for the Blairs in Downing Street each week when they are in London, made the prediction to friends at a recent memorial service. Last night,

Tony Blair is waving goodbye to Downing Street and I am sure to Bush too. He said that 10 years was long enough for him and the country and I am sure he is right sometimes the country needs a change.But all is not lost for him because he will be making some serious cash: -£40million from book deals and lecture tours.£125,000 speaking engagements at a time. His income was £117,500 a year pension and £90,000 What he said to the public:He insisted it was right to remove Saddam but admitted: "The blowback has been fierce, unrelenting and costly. "For many it can't be worth it. For me, I think we must see it through."The terrorists who threaten us here and around the world will never give up if we give up. It is a test of wills and we can't fail." He added: "His enduring legacy will be that he built better public services, a strong economy, that Britain's reputation in the world is stronger than ever and that at all times he tried to do the right thing." He ended: "I give my thanks t

A decade after he was first elected to office, Blair has now announced his resignation. I wish I could credit him more than I can, but unfortunately, there's a few little things to his record that simply cannot be ignored, such as how just a few months ago, as reported by Melanie Phillips:Last February, Tony Blair suggested that the British government might be prepared to do business with ‘the more sensible elements of Hamas’ in order to restore negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. This was about as rational as suggesting in 1942, say, that one might do business with the more sensible elements of the SS. But hey — this is Britain. It does appeasement. Produce a sect of fanatics who are totally beyond reason and bent on wiping out every last Jew and American, defeating the west and taking over the world and Britain will be beating a path to their door, cap in hand. This is because, in its unsurpassed cynicism, Britain believes there is no-one on the planet who is not

This is what Tony Blair had to say about Globalwarming. I would be concerned too if Gulf Stream had such impacts on weather in UK and Globalwarming had impacts on Gulf Stream. Globalwarming awareness2007 Tags: globalwarming awareness2007, global warming, awareness 2007, globalwarming Tags: Globalwarming Awareness2007, Global Warming Health

I'm sure I've questioned before on this blog whether Tony Blair could ever have been a lawyer. He appears to have come unscathed through both legal training and his time in politics with utter disregard for both democracy and the rule of law.Today he gave a speech complaining (again) the judges had thwarted his desire to deport Libyans back to Libya. They were terror suspects and he wanted to deport them. He produced a 'memorandum of understanding' with Gaddafi that deportees wouldn't suffer any kind of inhumane treatment in Libya, so where's the problem.The problems are these:We have treaty obligations to not deport people to countries where they will suffer inhuman treatment. Tony Blair probably thought it was a good idea to sign up to that treaty because it looked good. However a treaty is supposed to be a solemn undertaking. And the treaty applies to everyone. That is the point of the law: it applies to everyone. It is the law of the land.The government has deported p

The campaign to concrete rural England, ban February and for legalising urban foxhunting hits LondonDear citizen reader, It is with pride that I can confirm that the latest attack on the exposed flanks of government absurdity has been successful. As announced in the last blog a new phase has been entered into with the battle with the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA), leading to a ma

I am glad that our 15 service personnel have been released. I know their release will come as a profound relief, not just to them but to their families that have endured such distress and anxiety over these past 12 days.Throughout we have taken a measured approach, firm but calm, not negotiating, but not confronting either. I would like to thank our allies in Europe, our allies in the United Nations Security Council, for their support and also our friends and allies in the region who played their part. We are grateful to all of them as we are to the officials in the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence and here in Downing Street for the work that they have done.And to the Iranian people I would simply say this, we bear you no ill will. On the contrary, we respect Iran as an ancient civilisation, as a nation with a proud and dignified history and the disagreements that we have with your government we wish to resolve peacefully, through dialogue. I hope, as I have always hoped, tha

NEWSMAX.COM Friday, March 30, 2007 7:34 a.m. EDTRepublican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani says British Prime Minister Tony Blair shouldn't back down on his refusal to negotiate the release of 15 British sailors and marines detained in Iran."I urge Tony Blair to stand up to them," Giuliani said after shaking hands and dining at a barbecue restaurant Thursday evening in downtown Oklahoma City.Ok, Mr Giuliani has no experience on the federal level and is underestimating how sensative this situation is. There are 15-16 members of the British Armed Forces basically held hostige under false justification. Now... Correct me if I am wrong, but the good man and former mayor Giuliani should only step where there is ground for him to stand on. And in this situation, a political maneuver is not warranted nor required by a former mayor from our nation's largest city; especially since there is a delicate diplomatic process the British are trying to put forward to ensure the safety and s

Iran showed three British sailors on television and released a letter today from one of the sailors that says she is remaining captive because of “oppressive” behavior in Iraq on the part of US and Britain. A third letter from British sailor Faye Turney said, “I am writing to you as a British service person who has been sent to Iraq, sacrificed due to the intervening policies of the Bush and Blair governments.” Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, said that these letters and the TV airing of three British sailors is causing more disgust from people at the way Iran is treating these sailors and marines and could possibly cause Iran more isolation. The video that was released showed a woman in a headscarf and two men in uniforms who were talking and smiling in a room together.  On the footage on of the sailors said, “We trespassed without permission,” and that, “I would like to apologize for entering your waters without any permission…I de

A few weeks ago, we had the introduction of the verb to “blair”, meaning to inveigle yourself into another person’s goodwill in order to seduce them into giving you something. This, of course, was a natural outcome from people noticing that the Blair family seemed to sponge holidays from the rich and famous and that Cherie Booth, Tony Blair’s wife, even charged hefty fees for charity functions when other people actually gave their time freely for the sake of, er, charity. The Blairs, it seems, could never be embarrassed into not turning a quick buck wherever they saw the opportunity. The chance to pocket the rewards of “a nice little earner” would always outweigh the idea that it might be undignified and lack decorum. In that sense, they are the ideal standard-bearers of New Britain’s new chav culture. How on earth could you expect ordinary people not to be grasping and shallow when they had such paradigms? Anyway, in preparation for having t

For anyone who has ever wondered whether Tony Blair should have followed another career more commensurate with his talents, there is now the chance to help make him number one at something, as the chances of his being able to do this by his own devices become ever slimmer. Tony Blair used to be in one of those infinitely forgettable college bands, which was called Ugly Rumours.  A spoof of the band has been brought together and they have released a record which they would like to see get to Number 1 to embarrass Number 10. The group wants to do “more than embarrass Tony Blair”. A spokesman said: “We want his war mongering in Iraq and Afghanistan to end immediately. We want to help stop plans to attack Iran. We think Tony Blair should be held accountable for war crimes. “Getting the spoof Blair record into the Top 10 can play a part in publicising the anti-war message, which represents the view of the majority in this country who oppose the Bush-Blair wars. R

It is always good to hear what other people think about things. By listening to what other people say, we gain a new perspective and gain the chance to adjust our own opinions according to the new information we have acquired. Many people, certainly in New Britain, had assumed that Tony Blair took a gamble on going to war with Iraq. It had worked for Mrs Thatcher with the Falklands and it stood a chance of making him look good. It could make him appear as a world statesman and it might provide a big legacy.  All the evidence, when adjusted according to this overriding need, looked like going to war would be a good thing. A chance well worth taking. However, there is another way to look at all this, as American presidential hopeful, John McCain lets us know:- SEATTLE (AP) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Friday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sacrificed his career to support the Iraq war, and the Arizona senator acknowledged that he could face the same fate

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush’s leading ally during the war in Iraq, is supposed to announce this Wednesday the timetable to remove British troops from Iraq, including 1,500 that are to be coming home in several weeks. Some of the government officials said that Blair will tell the House of Commons during the meeting that 3,000 British troops will be leaving Iraq by the end of 2007, and that as of now Blair is not expected to mention when the rest of the troops will be coming home. The US National Security Council spokesman, Gordon Johndroe, said that Bush views the British soldier cutbacks as “a sign of success.”  Gordon also said that “the president is grateful for the support of the British Forces in the past and into the future,” and that “while the United Kingdom is maintaining a robust force in southern Iraq, we’re pleased that conditions in Basra have improved sufficiently that they are able to transition more control to the

Looks as if they are bringing home almost half by Christmas. British Prime Minister Tony Blair could soon announce plans for the withdrawal of thousands of troops from Iraq, according to the BBC. via: ctv.ca Tags: British, troop, withdrawalShare This

Dhimwit of the Month Honors Dhimwit of the Month Honors dhim·mi (dm or zm) - A Qur'anic term that refers to a subjugated non-Muslim person living in a society dominated by Muslims. Second-class status is confirmed by the legal system...

The heady days of ten years ago, when Tony Blair and his New Labour Project could count on the plaudits of celebrities and pop stars seems to be vanishing like a mirage. A month or two ago, Cliff Richard stopped offering his mansion for the Blairs to blair a free holiday and now, Noel Gallagher of Oasis fame is refusing to sing from Tony Blair’s songsheet. The BBC has this:- He said: “David Cameron is no different from Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown is no different from David Cameron. “They’re all cut from the [same] cloth and it annoys me that the biggest political icon from the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, someone who tried to destroy the working class… it freaks me out you know. “So I don’t really think there’s anything left to vote for. That’s why people don’t vote… why people would rather vote for celebrity talent shows than would vote for politics.” … He added: “When the Labour Party go

The comedian Jackie Mason has a joke which goes something like this. “There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters”. It could be said that employment generally follows a similar pattern. Bosses like to get as much work out of their employees as possible for the smallest amount of money. Workers like to work as little as possible for the largest amount of money they can earn. It is a system of mutual exploitation. Tony Blair’s legacy will be that he brought harmony and accord to the relationship between politicians and the people. People now distrust, hate and despise politicians: politicians distrust, hate and despise the people. Technorati Tags: politics of hate, mutual distrust, failure, contemptShare This

Not so long ago I watched a great TV program that focused on Tony Blair being indicted for war crimes, the build up to the program was how Tony's popularity started to dwindle in which case he had no choice but to stand down for Prime Minister I would like to see the U.S do something just like that about George Bush and see how far thay would be prepared to take the program, in the Channel 4 program, Tony Blair was played by Robert Lindsay, but I do not know who would play a good George Bush do you?

Tony Blair was looking to change the world last year through social and possibly genetic engineering. The state was going to have to intervene to make people uniform and subservient. The idea that variety in humankind might be a good thing would be wiped away in his brave new world of standardized human economic units. So, what happened to this wonderful initiative from September 2006? What would the consequences have been for Our Dear Leader had this policy been applied to him? The text is borrowed from smalldeadanimals.com, as the original site is not currently working:- LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday the state should intervene early - possibly even before birth - to stop the children of problem families growing up into troublemakers. One think-tank said the idea, the latest step in Blair’s drive against crime and anti-social behaviour in Britain, verged on “genetic determinism”. In his first interview since returning from a Caribbean hol

Martin Jacques, writing in The Guardian, has an interesting piece about the general moral tone and methods and manipulations of political expediency which have characterised Tony Blair and New Labour, both in and out of government. Then there was New Labour in office. From the outset, it invested an extraordinary importance in the media and in the consequent need to control the news agenda. Advisers - which almost invariably meant spinmeisters - were liberally dispersed around the ministries. The civil service, another potential check on overweaning government power, found itself relegated and demeaned by Blair’s political appointees. Figures such as Peter Mandelson and Alastair Campbell, masters of the dark arts, emerged as decisive figures within New Labour. The message was everything, substance a pliant handmaiden, truth the first casualty. Spin, of course, held the people in contempt. If the media could be squared, then so could the public. It was the antithesis of accountabi

The Observer Leader online today seems to say that if New Labour has been selling dodgy peerages it would be all right because other governments have done it in the past. The police should either bring charges or shut up, because the longer the investigation goes on, the worse it looks for Tony Blair and his chums and it might also frighten the horses. The problem with articles of this type, which seem to be flimsily disguised apologies for Our Dear Leader, is that they suddenly backfire.  Here are just a few comments made at the above site:- From AngusMcGlumpher I couldn’t really believe that this leader was so poorly thought out so I read it again. So let’s get this clear. Amongst the points you make are: 1. People have been selling honours for years, so no justification for a prosecution now. 2. The police shouldn’t investigate crime when the investigation might damage democracy. 3. Old laws are less important than new ones. 4. We should stop investigating a possi

This is an extact from the interview between John Humphrys and Tony Blair on the Radio 4 Today Programme, which I have taken from the Guardian:  JH: Ten years ago, we spoke after the first scandal - if that’s what it was - of the formula one affair. We did a television interview and you said to me - and the quote has been used many, many times since then; you’ll know where I’m going - “people think I’m a pretty straight kind of guy”. They don’t think that now, do they? TB: Well, you know, I thought you might ask me that and I thought about how I should answer it and, actually, I had the same thing put to me during the course of the last election, when people were calling me a liar and a war criminal and so on. Maybe this is how I have changed over the years as well. I said then, during the election campaign, and I would say now, I am not going to beg for my character in front of anyone. People can make up their mind about me, according to what

A couple of weeks ago, I was going to write something about the fact that it might have been better for the world if Tony Blair had stuck to his childhood dream of being a musician. Assuming he had devoted all his energies and talents to playing the guitar, one could have predicted that by now he would be living in a suburban bedsit, playing his riffs to an audience of one; perhaps sometimes being asked to fill in for a local pub band when the real guitarist was sick. He could bore the locals at his pub with tales of how he almost made it to the bigtime and they would occasionally buy him a drink to shut him up and he would stagger home alone and cry himself to sleep. The moral being that he would have found his natural level in life. He would not have been propelled to a position above his station or abilities and the world might have been happier and safer if he had remained sunk in oblivion. Ha! Ha! The problem is that events are now conspiring to bring this about after the interl

Belfast Today, following on from a lot of news reports, has a succinct comment about Tony Blair clinging on embarrassingly to an illusion of power when everyone is mocking him, mainly behind his back, but increasingly openly:- Only 26 per cent of voters, according to a latest poll for the Daily Telegraph, are satisfied with the Blair record as Prime Minister, a dramatic slump when compared with 66 per cent in early 1998. For all his unpopularity, a stubborn Blair is still adamantly refusing to hand over the reins until later in the year, probably after the May elections to the English district councils and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales. … Most of Tony Blair’s political troubles stem from within Labour ranks, from backbench MPs totally dismissive of his leadership and who have made their minds up that their woes will not end until they have seen the back of a Prime Minister whose authority is so derided. Labour policies may not change dramatically with G

There has been some speculation about what Tony Blair might do when he eventually steps down from his role as Prime Minister. Obviously, most people think he will chase the money on the lecture circuit to help pay off the huge mortgage he should not properly be able to afford on his current salary. Some people say he will go into some kind of international charity work; others that he will go into the venture capital market and still more that his future will be in the nuclear industry or possibly arms dealing. However, as this transcript of an interview reveals, he is clearly intent on landing the role of Vicky Pollard on the pantomime circuit, so expect to see him slapped up with greasepaint on the stage of a seaside venue near you soon. JON SOPEL: You said absolutely adamantly you were going to serve a full term. TONY BLAIR: Yeah but you know, I think most people would accept that at least you know, there’s got to be some process of transition, if you’re saying, cos the

There are some people who want Tony Blair to stay in office forever. No, honestly. They must have taken to heart that childish gibberish he came out with on entering office. Something like  "a thousand days to prepare for a thousand years" was it? Oh, who cares? Hitler was the other great millenarian fantasist, so it is to be doubted whether there is anything to be proud of in this empty, but almost clever sounding claptrap. Still, it probably had more rhetorical cadence than his normal speeches, which usually sound like he is reading recipes which he is having to translate from a foreign language in which he is not entirely fluent. The problem is, although we can be pretty sure that Our Dear Leader is actually on his way this time (it could, of course, be just another lie) that we don’t know when and we don’t know whether things will be any better under his successor. Matthew Parris writing in The Times has this: But I think it's worse than that. A period of vapidit

Frank Dobson, the former Health Secretary and unsuccessful London Mayor candidate, has said that Tony Blair is now “in office but not in power” and has recommended that he goes now and lets Gordon Brown get on with things. These extracts are taken from The Independent. “Quite a few people are now thinking that things are getting into such a mess that it would be better if Tony Blair went now even if it meant that Gordon Brown did have to take some responsibility for our electoral performance in May,” he said on GMTV. Frank Dobson went on to say that nobody believes there is now any proper control within New Labour, either at the head or at departmental level. In fact, Tony Blair is now so much of a pariah, that he occupies the position of the archetypal Billy No Mates. Mr Blair is due to deliver a keynote speech today at the Davos economic summit but Mr Dobson said none of the world leaders wanted to speak to him. It is not clear whether Mr Blair has started spe

Tony Blair may have renounced multiculturalism earlier this week, but the problem is that that's about all he's really done so far. Robert Spencer talks about it now on Hot Air. Frankly, I'm not waiting up, seeing how, as Dawn reports, British schools are now receiving guides to Islam containing all those religious items that Islamists use (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch). LONDON, Dec.9: A guide to Islam is being given to primary schools across Britain containing a headscarf, a prayer mat, a prayer cap, sacred Ihram clothing worn during the pilgrimage to Makkah, a poster of the Muslim prophets and a compass to locate the direction of Makkah. According to Daily Express the teaching resource, provided by the Muslim Council of Britain, is intended to provide children aged seven and 11 with information about true Islamic beliefs. The pack, described on Friday by one head teacher as a "three-foot by three-foot plastic box", also contains CDs, videos, children's books and pamphlets and model kits

Maybe he is, but words and actions are two entirely different things, and only if a debate actually takes place will any progress be made. From the AP Wire (via Jihad Watch):LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that Britain needed a debate about the position of Muslims, but that the faith also needed to decide how it comes to terms with modernity.At his monthly news conference, Blair said he supported a local school authority's decision to bar a Muslim woman from working as a teacher while wearing a veil.He said, however, that should be just one issue in a broader debate about "the relationship between our society and how the Muslim community integrates with our society.""There's a second issues which is about Islam itself, and how Islam comes to terms with and is comfortable with the modern world," Blair said.Similar debates, he said, were happening around Europe and in the Muslim world.Blair's argument is certainly getting somewhere, but there's still a long way to go, a

Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is being shown around an Edinburgh hospital. Towards the end of his visit, he is taken onto a ward of people with no obvious signs of injury. He greets the first patient and the chap replies: "Fair fa' you honest sonsie face, Great Chieftain e' the puddin' race! Aboon them a' ye tak your place, Painch, tripe, or thaim, Weel are ye Wordy o'a grace, As lang's my arm." Tony, being somewhat confused, just grins, moves on to the next patient and greets him. He replies: "Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some hae nane that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thank it." Even more confused, but trying not to show it, Tony moves on to the third patient, who immediately begins to declaim, "Wee sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi bickering brattle!" Alarmed, Tony turns to the doctor accompanying him and demands an explanation: "What sort of ward is this, a me

Article. For Blair It's A Long Goodbye England's long time Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has agreed to step down to Gordon Brown, his heir presumptive. Blair who has been criticized as a blind follower of President Bush's War in Iraq and the so called "War on Terror" has lost his battle with the British people. Today he made his final speech as the Leader of the Labor Party. Should we add Tony

Here is an interview of Shilpa Shetty from the IBN Website:Rajeev Masand: You just stepped out of the House of Commons where you met Prime Minister Tony Blair. What did he have to tell you?Shilpa Shetty: He was very sweet. I just took the opportunity to thank him. He perhaps had to answer a lot of questions about the goings-on in the Big Brothershilpa2uk.jpg house. I had to thank him for his support and humbleness.Mr Vaz (Labour MP Keith Vaz) too had addressed a lot of such issues. So, it was a great opportunity for me to thank him and I did so. He was very kind, extremely warm. He truly did stand up for my country, which is something that we all must appreciate.He was extremely sensitive about the racial issue raised up by a lot of people in the context of the show. There is something that we have changed about the whole perception, I feel.Rajeev Masand: There is obviously a lot of attention that you have got, from movie offers to brand endorsements, do you have any idea where you are

Here is an interview of Shilpa Shetty from the IBN Website:Rajeev Masand: You just stepped out of the House of Commons where you met Prime Minister Tony Blair. What did he have to tell you?Shilpa Shetty: He was very sweet. I just took the opportunity to thank him. He perhaps had to answer a lot of questions about the goings-on in the Big Brothershilpa2uk.jpg house. I had to thank him for his support and humbleness.Mr Vaz (Labour MP Keith Vaz) too had addressed a lot of such issues. So, it was a great opportunity for me to thank him and I did so. He was very kind, extremely warm. He truly did stand up for my country, which is something that we all must appreciate.He was extremely sensitive about the racial issue raised up by a lot of people in the context of the show. There is something that we have changed about the whole perception, I feel.Rajeev Masand: There is obviously a lot of attention that you have got, from movie offers to brand endorsements, do you have any idea where you are