Hints and tips:
...“Almost all of the broader Sahel — from Guinea to Sudan, the Atlantic to the Red Sea — is now under some form of post-coup-d’état military rule,” the report said....
...That’s what I’d like to achieve....
...Burn after Reid-ing One of the more enduring Whitehall reorganisations was Tony Blair and John Reid’s reduction in the size of the Home Office in March 2007....
...Six months after Labour’s 1997 landslide, Tony Blair hosted British artists, musicians and entertainers for a Downing Street soirée....
...We just pretended we’d gone off Jeremy Clarkson for a while....
...“La femme d’argent” was a rich swirl of bass and electric organ vamps, at once mellow and precise, with Delorme’s drumming giving the track more force than the recorded version....
...“There are plenty of grade D people passing themselves off as Grade A,” said one former Tory adviser turned consultant....
...D:Ream’s 1993 hit is a banging tune and perfect dance-floor filler, with a chorus everyone can sing with their arms in the air. It was also New Labour’s 1997 election song....
...According to Lord Jon Mendelsohn, a fundraiser in Tony Blair’s government, “The £19mn cap at the last election is what you’d spend on a junior Congress seat in the US.”...
...Blair is more interested in the policies than the vehicle. “I think he’d be just as happy if Rishi Sunak ran with his ideas,” says one close ally....
...I’d like to marry Florence Pugh. It doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen....
...Mr Blair gave us a reason to be here. London has been our friend,” states one. Meanwhile state schoolteachers in the capital are dying from Covid....
...Before their 1997 landslide victory, he and Tony Blair won over Tory voters by promising not to increase the top and bottom rates of income tax....
...“I’m not fully convinced by Labour, I’m not sure they’d know what to do if they get in,” he added....
...And he has stepped down claiming that he’d only ever been a member in order to try to overturn its all-male policy from within....
...But because your father was born somewhere else, say that for tax purposes you'd prefer to pay your tax elsewhere. We would get rid of that....
...And, you know, ditto in some ways Theresa May talking about ending modern slavery; you know, Tony Blair talking about public service reform....
...This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...Don't forget when Blair and Brown came in they also didn't give many detailed promises....
...So to this theme of kind of 'best when we're boldest,' to quote Tony Blair, is that what they're trying, just be bold on the economy?...
...A lot of big achievements build on what went before, whether it is Blair in Northern Ireland building on what John Major did, or Gove in education building on what Blair did....
...With the exception of London, which has had an elected mayor since Tony Blair’s foray into devolution, all these mayoralties have their roots in a single political arm-twist merely a decade old....
...“Whenever people left they’d try to get Hank’s folder to take wherever they were going.” “You could tell he was on to something even before he started the account....
...(Tony Blair later reframed this as the more pejorative “open / closed”.)...
...Speaking at Blair’s “Future of Britain” conference, Starmer warned that his party could not take its big poll lead for granted....
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