Blair News

I am not rejoicing at the return of Old Etonian Simon Mann from jail in Equatorial Guinea.

Car dealers must inspect used vehicles for safety defects and either make repairs or warn potential buyers before they are resold, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.

When Donna Miller was a teenager in Blair, Neb., she started a collection of Royal Doulton jugs.

Rick Williams is always busy at the Blair Animal Shelter. In addition to caring for a dozen newborn puppies and half a dozen stray dogs, Williams is the only animal control community service officer in Washington County.

Gordon Brown is secretly backing David Miliband to be the European Union's foreign affairs chief - clearing the way for one of his protgs to be Labour's next leader.

David Miliband gets the consolation prize and becomes High Representative The scenario that dare not speak its name in Downing Street, at the moment, but David Miliband's chances of ditching domestic politics and heading to Europe took a major step closer as EU leaders sat down to dinner last night.

LONDON // The leaders of the 27 European Union nations will meet in Brussels today determined not to talk publicly about what they are unable to stop arguing about privately - who should be the first, permanent president of the group.

Tony Blair should be made head of a stronger European Union that would be able to compete with China and the United States on the world stage, the Foreign Secretary said yesterday.

Tony Blair should be made president of the European Union because he warrants a large motorcade, David Miliband has admitted.

Jimmy Trevarthen had been waiting eight years for state-funded services to address his developmental disabilities when a state service coordinator called last month.

THE greybeards are back, some in rumour but others in fact. The Conservatives deny reports that Michael Heseltine, aka Tarzan, is set to return to government in a putative Tory administration; but other veterans are likely to serve alongside Ken Clarke, now the shadow business secretary, who will be 70 soon after the general election expected next ...

"Get ready for one last effort to oust Gordon Brown as Labour leader. Some in Westminster are suggesting that if Labour MPs were not so concerned with having to save their bank balances.. they would be more intent on saving their government.

Leonard Reiber, age 80 of Blair formerly Scottsbluff, passed away Monday, October 12, 2009 at the MCH Health System in Blair, NE.

Well, the European Left still has Portugal, Norway and Greece, but having lost France, Germany and Italy and with Spain and the UK looking decidedly vulnerable, one has to conclude that on balance, European social democracy is not going through one of its purpler periods.

The FT has an article by Charles Grant, boss of the Blairite CER think tank, with a fairly straightforward title: Blair would be a good choice for Europe .

The new Conservative/old Blairite mission is to use consumer choice to produce better, fairer public services.

Excellent piece by Stuart Jeffries, after a few days spent watching everybody gurgle round the drain at the Labour Party conference.

It is not in the bag. We must work for every vote. That's the tone the Tory leadership intends to set at this week's party conference, the last before the country must go to the polls.

Chancellor Alistair Darling will accuse the Tories of "relishing the chance to swing the axe" at public services as part of Labour's efforts to launch a political fightback.

IT HAS been said before and it will be said many more times yet, but there is something of a Shakespearean tragedy about Gordon Brown's leadership of the Labour Party as he and it head towards electoral judgment day some time, it is presumed, next year.