As the evening progressed, the local elections heralded a great election for Labour. Think about having drinks after work, kissing the co-worker you’ve been flirting with for months and ending up back with theirs. That was Labor in the early hours of Friday morning, while the Tories looked like the halitosis-ridden guy who’s been working … Read more
“She is the only politician from any party that working-class voters name as someone they like.” One is a wealthy, Oxford-educated lawyer from North London, the other is a scrappy, working-class Northerner who quickly gets into trouble for speaking his mind. We could be talking about Tony Blair and John Prescott here, but the description … Read more
Steve Brown, left, pictured in 2023 with his best friend Harry Hill, with whom he created Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera – Heathcliff O’Malley Steve Brown, who has died aged 69, was a composer of comedy songs, most notably for the satirical puppet show Spitting Image, eventually becoming its resident composer; he also wrote … Read more
Britain’s relationship with Japan was one of the factors taken into account when Tony Blair, pictured in 1997, decided to go ahead with Horizon – Thomas Imo/Photothek The Foreign Office warned Sir Tony Blair that scrapping the Horizon plan would damage relations with Japan, The Telegraph can reveal. The former Prime Minister ordered officials to … Read more