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Daddy's Girl The New York Review of Books In the spring of 2001, at the Conservative Party Conference in Plymouth, Margaret Thatcher made a joke. She was then seventy-five, and had been out of office for more than ten years, much of it spent as the hectoring conscience of her party. |
 The Week UK | Stephen Fry caught out Tony Blair back in 1998 The Week UK So much so that he would contribute to Blair's speeches from time to time. In 1998, Fry was asked to add some colour to a speech that Blair was to deliver to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. The comedian suggested inserting a joke he had ... |
Connolly, angry but still on top form Bradford Telegraph and Argus Glaswegian drunks, stink bombs and practical jokes have scorn poured on them as well as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Billy's humour is based on his dissatisfaction with the state of today's world. There's a touch of pathos, plenty of belly laughs and ... |
 Kansas City Star | On David Letterman's 30 years of late nights Los Angeles Times He went to CBS, famously, after NBC gave "The Tonight Show" to Jay Leno, in spite of endorsement for Letterman from its departing host, Johnny Carson (who in his retirement would also sometimes supply him with jokes). It was a bitter pill that still ... David Letterman Marks 30 Years In Late Night Television |
After 30 years, David Letterman reigns as the king of late night (sorry Jay) Vancouver Sun He went to CBS, famously, after NBC gave “The Tonight Show” to Jay Leno, despite an endorsement for Letterman from its departing host, Johnny Carson (who in his retirement would also sometimes supply him with jokes). It was a bitter pill that still ... |
Britain's Green-minded climate change minister resigns: why that's good for ... The Economist (blog) ... perspective of 2012, amid the chill winds of recession politics, those free-spending Euro-summits at which Angela Merkel (or the Green Goddess, as she was dubbed) vied with Tony Blair to seem as climate-concerned as possible seem like a cruel joke. |
Yudhoyono Again Promises to Get Tough on Graft as Public Anger Rises Jakarta Globe It used to be President SBY, then SBY and now often just 'Yudhoyono' - This happened with Tony Blair interestingly through his final years in office. Surely the mans time is coming to an end? This man is simply a huge joke. |
 Reuters Blogs (blog) | A yacht not fit for a queen Reuters Blogs (blog) When the Labour government of Tony Blair said it was too expensive and decommissioned it soon after assuming office in 1997, she was seen to weep at the ceremony. Last year, Blair was reported as saying he regretted the decision, pressed upon him by ... Seen and thus believed: Britain falls back in love with its dutiful, tireless ... |
 Crikey (blog) | REVIEW: Yes, Prime Minister | Comedy Theatre, Melbourne Crikey (blog) He reminded me of a sort of unkempt Tony Blair. Through the prism of absurdism, and satire, and with so many straight-up downright laughs, I don't think you need to necessarily believe he is a man who might actually be PM. |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Liam Byrne's unabashed Blairism is tolerated for now, but he is heading for a ... Telegraph.co.uk (blog) He also made the mistake of admitting in a farewell note to ministerial successor David Laws that “there's no money left”, a joke that if not off-colour was certainly off-message. And he's an unashamed fan of Tony Blair, which, going by Guardian ... Tories push benefit cap in PMQs, Miliband ignores it |
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