Gary Gibbon
Blair’s email and reputation
Tony Blair’s reported words of comfort and advice to Rebekah Brooks just as the News of the World had been accused of hacking into Millie Dowler’s phone will make some feel pretty squeamish.
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Gary Gibbon
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Blair ‘offered to be unofficial adviser’ to Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Brooks got advice on handling the phone hacking scandal from former Prime Minister Tony Blair who told her to use sleeping pills, and outlined a media strategy involving investigating herself.
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband and the state
Tonight Ed Miliband will make a speech arguing that the Blairite push for competition, the big market approach continued by the coalition, has reached the end of its productive life.
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Blair: West needs new strategy for religious extremism
Tony Blair warns that extreme religion, not politics, is at the heart of global terrorist acts and that the West needs to change its strategy to deal with radical beliefs.
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Ariel Sharon funeral: Israel mourns the ‘bulldozer’
Joe Biden and Tony Blair praise Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon for his determination at his state funeral on Monday.
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Faisal Islam
Children of Blair are overtaken by Ireland
As a nation we undervalue education – perhaps not of our own children, but of other people’s. Yes, there are statistical issues with Pisa, but the relative direction of travel is abundantly clear.
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Documents show Blair government let US spy on Britons
Exclusive: Tony Blair’s government allowed America to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Alex Thomson
Baghdamascus: Iraq’s long shadow
There’s a new town in town. Not on any map, but deep in the public psyche of the UK, US and France. It’s Baghdamascus.
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Jon Snow
How democracy stopped the UK entering the Syria conflict
Democracy means the UK will not be entering the Syrian conflict – does this mean a new way forward for the Uk and its politics?
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Alex Thomson
Spectre of Blair haunts Syria war
Whatever William Hague says, the scars of the Iraq war are still being felt in Westminster, across the UK and in the bonds of the Anglo-American relationship.
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Egyptian army right to intervene, says Blair
Tony Blair tells Channel 4 News that Egypt must “move back to democratic elections as soon as possible”, but the army was right to take action or there would have been “total chaos” in the country.
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Jon Snow
Hans Blix: Britain's Trident plans 'completely pointless'
I’ve just had the honour of interviewing the former UN chief weapons inspector Dr Hans Blix, who told me that replacing Trident with a new nuclear deterrent was “a completely pointless exercise”.
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Gary Gibbon
Miliband: ‘Thatcher was right’… but not often
Sounding prime ministerial the Labour leader seems to find paying tribute to Margaret Thatcher less troublesome than her successor David Cameron.
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Iraq war 10 years on: what have we learned?
It was the most divisive war of modern times. In our second special report a decade after the Iraq invasion, Channel 4 News asks leading figures what have we learned from it all?
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How does Cameron’s al-Qaeda dilemma differ from Blair’s?
David Cameron’s claim that al-Qaeda poses an “existential threat” reminds us of Tony Blair’s rhetoric in the aftermath of 9/11. But how do their challenges differ?
