Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
ByTony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG, better known as Tony Blair, is a British politician. He was the prime minister of the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007 and the leader of the Labour Party between 1994 and 1997. During his leadership, Blair is known for rebranding the Labour Party as ‘New Labour’. He studied at Fettes College and then studied law at St. John’s College at the University of Oxford. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on the former prime minister here.
The Tony Blair advice bureau
On Leadership is wise on the business of government but credulous on Elon Musk and corporate power.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Keir Starmer will bury Blairism
In office, circumstances will force the Labour leader to break with his party’s liberal progressivism.
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Tony Blair: “If I was back in front-line politics…”
Labour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to win.
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Will Labour dare embrace Tony Blair’s agenda?
Greater use of AI and the private sector would force Keir Starmer to slay more left taboos.
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Tony Blair anoints his successor
Keir Starmer’s appearance at the former PM’s Future of Britain conference was like a graduation.
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The secret life of an election pledge
Labour and Conservative manifesto writers reveal the untold story of these vital documents.
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How will Fleet Street vote at the next general election?
The next UK election could be the first at which the Murdoch papers do not back the winning party.
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A Tony Blair rock opera? Get me out of here!
My friend turned to me at one stage and whispered “help” with the desperation of someone seeking rescue from the…
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From the NS archive: Still on the edge of terror
22 May 1998: Irish republicans have at last accepted partition. That is the true meaning of the Good Friday agreement.…
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Succession’s sly allusion to New Labour’s very own succession
In the latest episode, Shiv Roy appears to echo Gordon Brown’s cry of betrayal at Tony Blair.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War: how one town honoured Britain’s fallen soldiers – Audio Long Reads
How do you mourn those killed in an “unjust” war? For years, the English town of Wootton Bassett showed the…
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The Iraq War exposed the liberal delusion of remaking the world
The fall of Saddam Hussein was not the end that had been promised – it was the image of the…
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The A-Z of the Iraq War
From Blairites to dodgy dossiers, an anatomy of the ill-fated invasion that brought down Saddam Hussein.
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