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Kuwait Official Pees on Blair Home, Gets Tasered

Rob Quinn — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:24:39 CDT

A government official from Kuwait picked a really bad place to take a leak as he stumbled drunkenly through the streets of London late at night. The official was approached by diplomatic protection officers as he peed on the doorstep of former prime minister Tony Blair's home, the Telegraph reports....

Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Anti-Gay Law Is OK

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:54:07 CDT

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says gay sex should remain illegal: "We like ourselves just the way we are," she told the Guardian . "We've got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve." Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, visiting on...

Palestinians: Tony Blair Is 'of No Use at All'

Mark Russell — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:00:00 CDT

The Palestinian Authority is accusing Middle East envoy Tony Blair of bias toward Israel and calling for his removal, reports the Telegraph . "Our general evaluation of his efforts is that he has become of no use at all," said a senior official with the Palestinian Authority. "He has developed a...

Tony Blair Lobbied Gadhafi for JP Morgan: Telegraph

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:58:29 CDT

Villain-of-the-hour Moammar Gadhafi apparently wasn't too much of a monster for at least one US investment bank. The Telegraph is reporting that former PM Tony Blair lobbied Gadhafi and his family for business on behalf of JP Morgan. Blair was one of three "prominent Western businessmen," including an unidentified former...

Murdoch Kid's Godfather: Tony Blair

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:41:43 CDT

Wendi Deng Murdoch may be no one to trifle with when there's a foam pie involved, but octogenarian hubby Rupert is probably wishing she had shut her piehole on this one: Seems that during an interview with Vogue, Mrs. Murdoch let slide that former British PM Tony Blair is the...

Tony Blair Debates Religion With Atheist Hitchens

John Johnson — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:34:16 CST

Famous atheist Christopher Hitchens took on famous Catholic convert Tony Blair in a debate on whether religion is a good or bad thing for the world yesterday. And while it's impossible to declare a winner on such a subjective ... oh wait, this is 2010, which means we had an audience...

Tony Blair, Plagiarist?

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:27:00 CDT

Tony Blair: Former prime minister, published memoirist ... and plagiarist? That's what screenwriter Peter Morgan suspects. Blair's version of his 1997 meeting with the Queen in A Journey reads: "You are my 10th prime minister. The first was Winston." If that sounds familiar, it's probably because you saw The Queen , written...

After Egg Mess, Blair Cancels Book Signing

Kate Schwartz — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:15:00 CDT

Though we're not sure if he prefers his eggs scrambled or fried, we're fairly certain he doesn't like them airborne. Tony Blair canceled Wednesday's planned book signing in London following a particularly messy one in Dublin on Saturday, in which 300 anti-war protesters hurled eggs and shoes at him. He...

Tony Blair: Iraq Regrets, but Not Many

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:58:39 CDT

Tony Blair is still hawking his book, and he's still not sorry about his role in taking down Saddam Hussein, he tells ABC's This Week. While "You can't not have regrets about the lives lost," the former PM says, "If we hadn't taken out Saddam, there would have still been...