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...As the dissident’s child and the dictator’s brat spar and parry, shafts of hope — even comedy — punctuate the gloom....
...The Heygate and Aylesbury estates were built in the 1960s and 1970s to house Southwark Council tenants, the latter being where Tony Blair famously launched Labour’s successful 1997 election campaign, which...
...I don’t doubt the government’s distaste for the dirigiste micro-management of the Blair-Brown years. But will the good intentions survive reality?...
...Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister, joined France’s President Jacques Chirac in this endeavour because he had the confidence rightly to believe that Britain could be key to shaping the security and defence...
...But it was a stunt of such effrontery that Tony Blair must for once have nodded in approval. Thing is, Cherie could never have got away with it. Sarah did....
...Pinchuk toys with evading my question for a sentence or two, then parries with a clever and unexpected rebuttal....
...At an Islington cafe, over breakfast, Lord (Charles) Falconer, himself a Scot and the former lord chancellor in Tony Blair’s government, told me that “the Union is in play in a way it has not been before...
...After hours of negotiations, Sir Emyr Jones Parry, Britain’s ambassador to the UN, said the council called “for an early resolution of this problem, including the release of the 15 personnel”....
...Britain’s battle to win UN support came amid escalating tensions, with Tehran saying it would not free the one woman held and Tony Blair calling Iran’s actions “a disgrace”....
...Cheek by Jowell Tony Blair gets Blue Peter and Songs of Praise on his valedictory interview tour....
...The other great political lobby is sports fans and regular players will be hoping they can parry an attack from Laszlo Kovács, Brussels tax commissioner....
...The faux benevolent overtones of the Rearrangement hold a slightly icy echo of Tony Blair’s cheerily inclusive “big conversation” and anybody suspected of “undermining the fabric of society” could be held...
...Sum of knowledge Tony Blair has long extolled the enriching benefits of introducing private sector expertise and practices into the public service arena....
...Sarah Hogg Chairwoman, 3i Group Journey to Lean by John Drew, Blair McCallum and Stefan Roggenhofer; Enterprise, by Roger Parry; and Simply Better, by Patrick Barwise and Seán Meehan.These are three very...
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