Tony Blair
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Truss’s warmongering rhetoric is empty, antagonistic – and wildly dangerous | Simon Jenkins
The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre o…
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How Tony Blair advised former Kazakh ruler after 2011 uprising
British former PM told Nursultan Nazarbayev to stress he ‘understood’ critics and to say reforms would ‘take t…
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Lives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of 9/11
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been mor…
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Who’s to blame for the Afghanistan chaos? Remember the war’s cheerleaders | George Monbiot
Today the media are looking for scapegoats, but 20 years ago they helped facilitate the disastrous interventio…
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Tony Blair damns the Afghan withdrawal but he would do better to show remorse | Simon Jenkins
The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of his 2001 …
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Tony Blair: Afghanistan exit gives opportunities to UK’s enemies
Former PM attacks ‘dangerous’ withdrawal, saying Islamist groups, Russia and China will benefitThe UK and othe…
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Tony Blair condemns ‘tragic, dangerous’ US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Former prime minister says jihadist groups will be ‘cheering’ return of the TalibanTony Blair has warned that …
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The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan has laid bare the magnitude of western hubris | Polly Toynbee
I was one of many who thought, in the wake of 9/11, that “something must be done”. We have learned a bitter le…