Tony Blair served as the Prime Minister of the UK from 1997 until 2007. He is a former Labour Party Politician and led the party for 13 years. Under Blair the party moved from its left-wing position towards being a centre ground political party. Blair won the 1997 general election in landslide victory. He was involved in the Good Friday Agreement and the War on Terror.
On this date 15 years ago, the Good Friday Agreement was signed. While we have come along way, we shouldn’t take the peace we have for granted, writes Ben English.
Ten years ago this week the United States-led “coalition of the willing” launched the Iraq War. If we’ve learned anything from the Iraq experience it’s that governments should refrain from biting off more than they can chew, says Scott Fitzsimmons.
Including combatants on all sides and as-yet undocumented civilian fatalities that figure could be as high as 174,000, according to the Iraq Body Count organisation.
Tutu said the invasion of Iraq left the world more destabilised and divided than any other conflict in history and had “hardened hearts and minds of members of the human family across the world”.
Weakened by cancer, Hitchens continued to write for Vanity Fair in his final days, questioning the saying that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Regarded as an ally post 9/11, the western world’s view of Gaddafi changed drastically in a matter of months. Here’s what world leaders were saying about the Colonel then and what they say now.
In the latest extracts from his diaries, Alastair Campbell recalls how angry the prince made the prime minister over the foot and mouth crisis, Chinese relations and GM foods.
A British MP says that a cover up operation is underway in the phone hacking scandal. It’s claimed that public figures have had their bank accounts hacked.
The former UK Foreign Secretary has told an inquiry into the Iraq war that changing Saddam Hussein’s regime in the country was never a British objective.
Blair reappears at the Chilcot Inquiry to explain why he ignored legal advice concerning the invasion of Iraq – and why he believed the “calculus of risk” has changed in a post-9/11 world.
ONE OF AMERICA’S biggest child beauty pageant organisers is set to spend €20,000 staging their first-ever Irish contest in September.
The Herald reports today that beauty bosses said it will be open to “babies, toddlers and teens” and will also include a heat with kids in swimwear.
Some parents believe that contests celebrates their children’s beauty, helps them learn about camaraderie and boosts their self-confidence. While others think that beauty pageants send out the wrong kind of message to children and that the costumes and make-up involved sexualises kids.
So, today we would like to know: Would you enter your child in a beauty pageant?
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