War hero

Image source: The Guardian The re-election of the Blair Government for a third term of office yesterday completes the trifector for the Iraq War leaders. First Howard, then Bush, and now Blair. Of the three, I think the re-election of Blair saddens me the most because here you have a Labour Prime Minister aligning himself [...]

The Hyde Park War Memorial

It was quite predictable, I suppose, that both John Howard and Tony Blair would make some political capital from the unveiling of the new Australian war memorial in Hyde Park, London, yesterday.

The credibility of the ‘beau Blair’

Tim Dunlop commented yesterday on the growing unrest in Pommieland about the phantom WMD. As I observed last month, Thomas Friedman is more than happy to lend his support to the ‘so-what-Saddam-was-a-bad-guy-anyway’ camp. Somehow, I don’t think the British media will acquiesce quite so readily. This shouldn’t worry Blair though because, according to today’s Observer, [...]