When I first posted my initial article, criticising Tony Blair, the title was edited from its current state ‘Tony Blair “Relished” Sending Troops into Battle’ to simply ‘Tony Blair’. I was not aware that articles here were checked by Downing Street before going online. I have now posted it again in its original form, but it was edited when first posted.

Link Anyone who has been into a Glasgow pub on a Saturday night will understand this story absolutely.

Tony Blair has always told the British public that sending our troops to their possible deaths is the hardest thing a leader can do. But a new diary from Lance Price, a former Downing Street aide, reveals that Mr Blair was not quite so pensive when actually making such decisions. When talking about ordering strikes on Iraq in 1998, Mr Price says... "I couldn't help feeling TB was relishing his first blooding as PM, sending the boys into action. Despite all the necessary stuff about taki...