Tony Blair

Waiting for Gordon

D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain

Britain's incoming prime minister inherits a country transformed almost beyond recognition.

Labour Crowns King Brown

Gary Younge : Great Britain

The one pledge Gordon Brown can deliver that would make his transition to power meaningful is to withdraw from Iraq immediately.

Blair, Brown, Blah

Gary Younge : Great Britain

Tony Blair's sorry record on Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon--and the rise of a new, viable leader of the Conservative Party--could spell doom for Gordon Brown and the Labour Party.

George & Tony's Not So Excellent Adventure

Gary Younge : George W. Bush

If democracy represents the will of the people, then there is either something wrong with democracy in the United States and Britain or something wrong with the people on both sides of the Atlantic.

Palazzo Papers, Anyone?

Steve Cobble : George W. Bush

As Prime Minister-elect Romano Prodi takes the reins of power, Italians should seek evidence of Berlusconi's true role in the run-up to the Iraq War.

Left's Labour Lost

Gary Younge

After nine years, Tony Blair's magic has worn off. His Labour Party has mutated from an imperfect conduit of progressive change into an active obstacle to it.

Still Blair's Party

D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain

Advise and Consent

Scott L. Malcomson : Europe

Britain's Secret Sharers

D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis : Great Britain

Whitewashing Blair

D.D. Guttenplan : Great Britain

The Bubble

Maria Margaronis : George W. Bush

The Bubble

Maria Margaronis : George W. Bush

To Londoners, even many who did not oppose the war, Bush's visit felt like an assertion of absolute, arrogant power.

Blair, Triumphant

D.D. Guttenplan : Iraq War

UK Sideshow to Iraq

D.D. Guttenplan : WMD

The 'Dodgy Dossier'

Maria Margaronis : Great Britain

The Poodle That Barked

D.D. Guttenplan : Iraq War

Letter From London

D.D. Guttenplan : Iraq War

Europeans opposed to war in Iraq are united by a deep distrust, even fear, of America.