Free Essays on Tony Blair

  1. Britain and the Blair Years

    | The EU-UK Relationship | Addressing the Blair Years | | | 4/23/2009 | Advisor: Dr. Schortgen | Abstract The United Kingdom and the European Union have had a very difficult relationship since the accession of the UK in to the European Economic Community (predecessor of the...

  2. Patronage in Politics

    1. The term patronage means This is used in the extract to mean that Thatcher 2. 3. Tony Blair has developed the office of prime minister because he proved himself to be a decisive leader by telling colleges for speaking out of turn and reform and reformed & centralised the party. For new labour...

  3. Politics

    disadvantages is that our rights are not adequately protected and can be abused. One of the most severe cases’ of this happening was in 2005 when Tony Blair declared the ‘Prevention of Terrorism Act’ which included placing an individual under house arrest, restricting who they meet and communicate with...

  4. The Special Relationship

    recently former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former President George W. Bush were able to find common purpose after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil. Both Blair and Bush saw a need for action to preserve world peace. They acted together with Blair doing aggressive diplomacy directly...

  5. Assess the Claim That Social Democracy in the Uk Now Is Unrecognisable.

    The resulting ideological stance have been descried as the ‘Third Way’ and an alternative to ‘old style’ democracy, as associated in the UK with Tony Blair (Prime Minister 1997-2007) and ‘new’ Labour. However, to what extent is the Third Way a development of social democracy? Firstly, its emphasis on...

  6. Who Has Power at Home?

    and both the Queen and Prince Philip attended Thatcher's 80th birthday party. It was initially thought that Elizabeth had very good relations with Tony Blair, during his first five years as Prime Minister. However, evidence mounted that their relationship had hardened as the years passed, until it was...

  7. poverty

    one of the highest rates of child poverty in the UK in the 1980’s and 1990’s amongst OECD countries. (cesi.org.uk). It was during this time that Tony Blair announced in March 1999 to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020, and to halve it by 2010. Unfortunately this target was not met although progress...

  8. citizens charters

    the country so that these services respond to the needs and wishes of the users. The programme was re-launched in 1998 by the Labour Government of Tony Blair which rechristened it “Services First”. The basic objective of the Citizens’ Charter is to empower the citizen in relation to public service delivery...

  9. military

    scale. This has changed the way people interact with each other and with their politicians. My first campaign as spokesman and strategist for Tony Blair was in 1997, three years in the planning after he had become leader of the Opposition Labour Party. Some of the principles of strategy we applied...

  10. Politics

    of legislation. The only way I can possibly see, that political parties are breaking their traditional rules, is their loyalty to the monarchy. Tony Blair, First Minister to the Queen, openly admits his dislike for the monarchy and would prefer to see it abolished. Therefore I believe that the statement...

  11. Great Brittan

    Great Britain is split into four different parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its central city is London and the Prime minister is Tony Blair. The languish they use the most is English, but it’s not an official languish. Their biggest religion is the Anglican Church that has more then 27...

  12. Life Sucks

    with prominent foreign politicians and elected officials even before his presidential candidacy, notably with then current British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whom he met in London in 2005,[187] with Italy's Democratic Party leader Walter Veltroni, who visited Obama's Senate office in 2005,[188] and with...

  13. The Days

    for such consent. Like most dictatorships they are manoeuvring their way to a position that cannot be challenged. Ending ‘judicial interference’ (Blair, 2003, BBC News) in their immigration policy is a significant step towards ultimate power which began by disregarding the 1951 Convention, side stepping...

  14. The Alternative to Thinking

    front of you is a fundamentalist muslim with a rocket launcher, standing behind you is George Bush. To your left is John Howard and to your right is Tony Blair. Who's word do you trust more? Funny? You get the point. Not funny? You're scared. Really, is all we're trying to do, laugh so that we can trust...

  15. Biography of David Cameron

    Cameron The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.The Labour Party was last in government between 1997 and 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, beginning with a majority of 179, reduced to 167 in 2001 and 66 in 2005. Having won 258 seats in the 2010 General Election, Labour...

  16. why do I bother with this

    interesting account of the last UK election and in particular the first ever televised Leaders’ Debates. Though I had worked on three campaigns for Tony Blair, I am sufficiently tribally Labour to have answered a call from his successor, Gordon Brown, to go back to help him for his first election campaign...

  17. Should the U.S Withdraw from Iraq

    was seized on oil. The United States and Britain planned in advance to the invasion of Iraq. On the day that major hostilities were declared over, Tony Blair told the Iraqi people, “Saddam Hussein and his regime plundered your nation’s wealth. While many of you live in poverty, they have the lives of luxury...

  18. To what extent does the Prime Minister dominate the political system in the UK?

    spotlight has focused more on the prime minister in recent years, and through the media the PM will articulate government policy to the general public. Blair formalised this role by holding monthly press conferences and appearing before the House of Commons Liaison Committee. Opinion polls record higher recognition...

  19. economy

    Thatcher. The flexibility of the job market, and some liberal ideas of the conservatives, made the New labour, have new objectives on the matter (Tony Blair, 2011, p. 119).  The new policies of new labour were based on Anthony Giddens’ theories, who said that globalisation is positively productive and...

  20. British Economy and Class Culture

    New Labour government was to use in order to bring about the longest period of sustained economic growth in British history. Indeed on entering power Tony Blair's Labour Party stuck with the former Conservative government's spending plans. One of the first acts that the new Labour government embarked on...

  21. Bai Bao Doc

    Patients have to undergo extensive genetic counselling before their results are revealed. Landmark Ten years ago this week, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair held simultaneous press conferences in the White House and Downing Street to announce the first draft human genome had been completed. Scientists...

  22. Jones Blair Product Strategies

    Product Classification At Jones-Blair we offer a durable, long-lasting, quality product, that paired with our excellent sales staff and knowledgeable employees has an excellent foothold in our target markets. • Industrial Good- When considering Jones-Blair in the industrial good market, we are under...

  23. The powers of the Prime Minister are considerable

    (Former Labour Cabinet minister) over the impending war in Iraq in 2003, in which Short openly disagreed with Blair, over UK involvement in Iraq, without a UN resolution and repeatedly labelled Blair as “reckless” and threatened to resign. Nevertheless, Short remained in Cabinet, before being sacked in May...

  24. Thatcher and trade unions

    majority of the populace agree; an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994. These were the first steps towards the Good Friday Agreement 1998 negotiated by Tony Blair. Won the 1995 leadership contest. Major was forced into a leadership contest in 1995 to stop splits in the party over Europe and the betrayal of...

  25. ACC 201 Week 1 Memo to Blair

    Memo to Blair Copy & paste the link in your browser to get the tutorial: http://www.homeworkmade.com/acc/acc-201/acc-201-week-1-memo-to-blair/ Memo to Blair. Complete the writing assignment, ATC 1-4 from Chapter 1 and submit to your instructor. ACC 201 Week 1 Memo to Blair Copy...

  26. Uk and Scottish Goverment

    influence, exposureand exploitation of the mass media. The current PM is Gordon Brown who succeeded PM Tony Blair who was PM for 9 years. Although not always popular due to many controversies, PM Blair was Labours longest serving PM. The Scottish Parliament is a unicameral legislative, democratic body...

  27. Social Structure

    wardrobes, their cultural knowledge and, not least, their accent. Over the past decades sociologists and politicians, such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, have tried to change this situation and create a peaceful environment that isn’t dominated by divisive class issues. And, progress has been made...

  28. Kennedy Report

    workings of the health service and indeed its areas requiring improvement. At the launch of the commission for health improvement the Prime Minister Tony Blair made comparisons between it and OFSTED the much maligned organization responsible for maintaining education standards in England and Wales. He commented...

  29. Blair Aqua Case Study

    1 Blair Aqua Ventures "A pity I couldn't have stayed for Diwali," thought Rahul Chatterjee. "But anyway, it was great to be back home in Calcutta." The Diwali holiday and its festivities would begin in early November 2005, some two weeks after Chatterjee had returned to the United States. Chatterjee...

  30. Clinical Assessment of Tony Stark

    Assessment of Tony Stark Deanne Norgaard PSY 303: Abnormal Psychology Hillary Locke April 4, 2016 Clinical Assessment of Tony Stark I. Identifying Information The patient’s name is Anthony Stark, who prefers to go by Tony. He is a Caucasian/white heterosexual male in his late 20’s. Tony lives in...

  31. Two ways of measuring poverty with reference to children in poverty

    than In England although England still has higher levels of child poverty than Scotland (Anushree Parekh et al, 2010). To eliminate child poverty, Tony Blair (1999), made a commitment which was he wants to halve child poverty by 2010 and abolish it by 2020 (Dornan, 2004). In order to comply with the policies...

  32. The Character Tony Sopano

    The Modern Day Gangster Tony Soprano is a modern day gangster in the TV show The Sopranos. At first glance, he seems like your normal father, husband, and neighbor but as you begin to look closer you start to see patterns toward violent behavior and illegal activity. He has the same problems as most...

  33. Should the Troops in the Iraqi War Pull Out Now?

    2003 when the conflict started. After the capture of Saddam Hussein George W. Bush said “… In the history of Iraq, a dark and painful era is over…” Tony Blair added to the aforementioned quote, “Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture being about unity, reconciliation and...

  34. Eric Arthur Blair

    Eric Arthur Blair better known as George Orwell was born on June 25 1903 in the Bengal region of east India. George’s great grandfather Charles Blair was a very wealthy plantation owner in Jamaica. His father Richard Walmesley Blair worked in the Opium department of the Indian civil Service. His mother...

  35. Miss

    example, they are homeowners, possess all the mod cons, go on expensive holidays and participate in leisure activities like attending the theatre. Tony Blair even proposed that we are all middle class now, stating, ‘a middle class that included millions of people who traditionally may see themselves as...

  36. JONES BLAIR COMPANY CASE

     Marketing for Managers: Case: JONES BLAIR COMPANY JONES BLAIR COMPANY, early January 2005 THE ISSUE Management of Jones Blair Company needs to decide how to deploy marketing efforts among the various architectural paint coatings markets served by the company...

  37. The Blair Witch Project

    The Blair Witch Project Dr. Marilyn Willis Hum/150 Introduction to Film Studies October 16, 2008 The filmmaker’s intent was to make viewers believe in and respect the paranormal realm of this universe. It was also the filmmaker’s intent to have viewers (by the masses) believe this documentary...

  38. Reluctant U.K in Eu

    get from being a member in EU. The last section is concludes the paper. “Self-interested Britons, under the leadership of that ‘Machiavellian’ Tony Blair, have been ruthless in compromising away their rebate, devilish in their rhetoric for a more competitive and prosperous Europe, and utterly exclusionist...

  39. Corruption Prevention the Hong Kong Approach

    ASIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION PREVENTION: THE HONG KONG APPROACH Tony Scott, Alastair Carstairs and Doug Roots Introduction This article, which we believe is the first in any academic journal on the subject of corruption prevention, is a practical account by three practitioners...

  40. The Battle of Blair Mountain

    battle between coal miners and coal company operators. Robert Shogan, a political correspondent and historian, has told its story with The Battle of Blair Mountain. Shogan brings immediacy to the story by looking closely at details of the war and also at the larger social movements within the nation and...

  41. Blair Witch Project

    The Blair Witch Project Film Review From the moment this film begins you know that it’s not going to be a happy ending. The film begins by telling us that this was footage filmed by three teenagers that went missing and this was the footage they found a year later. The story focuses on 3 amateur film...

  42. Sovereignty of Parliament Within the Eu

    legislate on any subject-matter and no one but a subsequent Parliament can overturn the Acts of Parliament made. This supports the statement made by Tony Blair in the question. Examples of Acts that illustrate this unlimited legislative power are the Act of Settlement 1700 which shows that Parliament can...

  43. The Political Economy of International Trade

    economy by setting them too high. However, British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that without the participation of the U.S. and the emerging economies of China and India, there can be no significant progress on the issue. Blair put a positive spin on the other item on the agenda, aid to Africa,...

  44. Agejhejw

    founder Francis Preston Blair, the only one whose influence can ensure that all members of the western and border state conservative Republican faction will back the amendment. With Union victory in the Civil War seeming highly likely and greatly anticipated, but not yet a fully accomplished fact, Blair is keen to...

  45. Barack Obama, Bob Marley, Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe

    funded by Britain. Britain did not deliver much on this promise and in 1997 after over # 40 million pounds has been spent, the Labour Government of Tony Blair unilaterally declared that the British government did not accept that it had a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe...

  46. Transformation of International Tourism in Europe - Ryanair and Easyjet

    Government. The current question probing the Government is exactly when the anticipated fuel tax will be imposed on the aviation industry. Tony Blair seemed quite opposed the idea, telling fellow MPs that he would not "slap some huge tax on cheap air travel". However, throughout other parts of...

  47. Is Universal Healthcare the Anwer

    trust the physicians that his healthcare system trained. Great Britain also has problems with training, as Hieb (2004, p.364) states “when Tony Blair was Prime Minister he stated that nurses were being trained to end job demarcation.” “Demarcation is the determining and marking off of the boundaries...

  48. the last time

    Disarmament 184. Stokely Carmichael Black Power 185. Thomas Babington Macaulay Copyright Law 186. Thomas Babington Macaulay Government of India 187. Tony Blair Speech War with Iraq 188. Vyacheslav Molotov On the Nazi Invasion of the Soviet Union 189. William Jennings Bryan Speech Cross of gold 190...

  49. Organisational Behaviour

    with the passing of time. Learning Prime minister, Tony Blair stated that "education is the best economic policy we have” That through the policy of lifelong learning the UK would have the knowledge to compete in the new economy (Tony Blair PM 1998 cited in DTI White Paper). To compete in the “new...

  50. Immigration, education and the new caste society in Britain

    of Britain. Its (in)famous election slogan back in 1997, ‘education, education, education’, has by now entered the general lexicon. Under first Tony Blair and then Gordon Brown, the party has, as Ewart Keep (2007: 33) suggests, taken the language of education and skill (‘human capital’ in current...

  51. Nucor's Annual Report 2009

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  52. Assessing the Bush Administration’s War on Terrorism After Six Years

    not anymore. U.S. casualties began to accumulate, foreign support for the war started to decline, however at this point Prime Minister of England Tony Blair was side by side with Bush. In late 2005 some Congressman began to call for the start of a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Representative John...

  53. Bolman & Deal

    serving as a chancellor was criticized by the media for not being publicly savvy.[4] By spending time networking to key allies at that time so when Tony Blair stepped down as prime minister, he had the backing of enough Member of Parliaments to ensure he did not face contest to become the next political...

  54. The Concept of "Heritage Cinema".

    ” Monk identified the evolutionary shift in the production and reception of period dramas following the Labour Party’s election victory in 1997. In Tony Blair’s “New Britain”, she wrote in 2002, “criticizing commercial success had become bad form and the dominant mode is one in which Britain film successes...

  55. the-crowdsourced-guide-to-learning

    F O E DL ES D I E M LTY LI H T IN CU I F F DI Y T I UN T R PO OP QUOTE BY ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST. SUBMITTED BY BLAIR BROWN 12 underestimated . Su bm it nt e ot b nn a c GO WITH YOUR INSTINCT ra ou Author. Subm ett, itt h ed tc ...

  56. Jones-Blair Case

    Jones-Blair Case Problem Statement: Where and how to deploy corporate marketing efforts among carious architectural paint coatings segments served by JBC in the southwestern USA? Will JBC pursue the Non-DFW DIY or DWF Professionals as to increasing advertising, reducing prices and or add more sales...

  57. Politics

    used in response to an attack on the US, not on European territory ▪ the idea to use Article V came from a NATO ally (conversation between Tony Blair and NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson) on behalf of the US, not from the US in defence of a NATO ally ▪ the decision was in response...

  58. Interview with Israel Wignall by Tony Hall

    Interview with Israel Wignall by Tony Hall With included responses. 1. When and why did you start playing? I Started playing at 9, my mom enrolled my sister and I in private classical piano lessons and it stuck from that point. 2. Which instruments do you play? piano, guitar, and I also sing...

  59. Barack Hussein Obama: the First African American President

    in neighboring Kenwood, Chicago. The purchase of an adjacent lot and sale of part of it to Obama by the wife of developer, campaign donor and friend Tony Rezko attracted media attention because of Rezko's subsequent indictment and conviction on political corruption charges that were unrelated to Obama...

  60. diaspora

    country’s opposition because it is far more congenial to Western economic interests, ZANU PF therefore dubbed the March 2005 election as the ‘anti-Blair’ election. Another important observation is that despite condemnation for his strong-arm tactics and brash rhetoric, Mugabe’s message of land, historic...