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Posts Tagged: Tony Blair

Austen Morgan: The strange story of Adams, the IRA, imprisonment, compensation – and an important decision for Ministers

Will they fight any following cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and ask it to overturn Kerr’s decision?

By Dr Austen Morgan | 21 April 2021

How disgusting Cameron’s critics are. He is a decent man – as were Baldwin and Blair.

All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 April 2021

Robert Halfon: 30 years ago, Major defied foreign policy orthodoxies, saved thousands of Kurdish lives – and set us an example

Britons can be very proud that he quickly answered the calls of the Kurds at the moment of their righteous rebellion and intense suffering.

By Robert Halfon MP | 7 April 2021

Sarah Ingham: After the Batley protests and on this Easter Saturday, a case for tolerating religious belief

In Britain, we don’t ‘do God’ too much. Should we go to church, most are not C of E, but C and E – Christmas and Easter.

By Dr Sarah Ingham | 3 April 2021

Austen Morgan: Is Buckland letting the judges set the pace on reform?

A contest exists between traditional common lawyers, who believe the constitution exists (in their minds), and modernisers including myself.

By Dr Austen Morgan | 31 March 2021

John Bald: Yes, Jess Phillips. Ministers indeed dropped the ball on sexual violence. Under Labour.

A casualty of its changes in government was a confidential questionnaire for pupils – given out and collected by inspectors.

By John Bald | 31 March 2021

Buckland gears up for a stealth raid on judicial power – and the Labour legacy that boosted it

The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.

By Paul Goodman | 29 March 2021

David Davis: The Covid public inquiry should open in October, be held in two stages – and prepare for the unexpected

First, it should present future recommendations within a year. Next, on a longer timescale, it should look at what went wrong.

By David Davis MP | 26 March 2021

Neil O’Brien: The view that manufacturing is a relic of the past is itself a relic of the past

It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK

By Neil O Brien MP | 22 March 2021

Interview. Therese Coffey – “An element of a kinder politics is not calling other people bigots because you don’t agree with them.”

Here’s her take on Universal Credit, science, Liverpool, same-sex marriage – and her department. “Big thanks to the Jabs Army, we are the Jobs Army.”

By Andrew Gimson and Paul Goodman | 19 March 2021

Robert Halfon: Conservatives must never be complacent about Starmer. The public mood can change quickly.

Plus: The Government will soon have to set out the tough decisions on public spending to constituents.

By Robert Halfon MP | 10 March 2021

How to advise Lord North, or Heath, or Thatcher, or Johnson

A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 March 2021

Ryan Bourne: Why is Sunak so taken with tax hikes – when the tax burden is forecast to be its heaviest for 70 years?

Conservative messaging implies an implicit belief that there are no major state functions ripe for reform in any fiscal repair.

By Ryan Bourne | 2 March 2021

The red white and blue archipelago: how localism can sustain the Union.

The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.

By Paul Goodman | 26 February 2021

The DfE has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at school reopenings. But the perennial problem is communication.

Up against the noisy unions, it’s struggled to convey the safety of schools compared to other environments.

By Charlotte Gill | 25 February 2021

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