Hamas signals it is willing to accept some parts of Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan
Militants say they will cede power and free hostages, and US president tells Israel to stop bombing enclave
Tony Blair
What’s in Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, and will Hamas accept it?
Gaza envisaged as ‘deradicalized terror-free zone’, no governance role for Hamas – yet little detail on execution of key points
Trump and Netanyahu’s new Gaza plan is a far cry from ‘the Riviera of the East’
Many questions remain, not least the key issue of whether Hamas leadership had been privy to the full contents of the plan in advance
Trump agrees new Gaza peace plan with Israel and warns Hamas to accept
US president hails draft deal as ‘potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation’
Q&A: What is Trump’s plan for Gaza and what role will former British PM Tony Blair play?
Hamas to disengage politically and militarily from Gaza, with Blair set to play a key role in implementing this agenda
Could Labour’s ‘king of the north’ dethrone Keir Starmer?
As Labour heads into a fractious party conference, the Manchester mayor has made his leadership ambitions clear. But some party insiders believe he might have ‘over-reached’
Tony Blair ‘seeking to play key role’ in running postwar Gaza under Trump peace plan
Trump administration wants former British prime minister to be involved in transitional postwar arrangement
David Trimble: Peacemaker – A man easy to lampoon, but courageous and willing to take risks
Stephen Walker’s book doesn’t attempt a deep psychological explanation, but offers a reminder of the scale of Trimble’s achievement
‘Prince of Darkness’ Peter Mandelson’s exit raises questions over Keir Starmer’s judgment
Britain’s PM facing fresh crisis over appointment he was warned against, with sacking coming just six days before Trump visit
Peter Mandelson’s many scandals: A steam bath with a billionaire, an undeclared loan and ‘pure poison’
New revelations about his closeness to Epstein proved too much, forcing Mandelson into his extraordinary third resignation
Why is Tony Blair attending White House meetings with Trump on post-war Gaza?
Britain’s former prime minister is said to have worked for months on a plan for territory
These Divided Isles: Ireland and UK shared history told with ‘reliable pithiness’
Philip Stephens describes the record of British political leaders with regard to Ireland as one of ‘insouciant neglect’
Former US ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith turned against Sinn Féin after 9/11, British files claim
She also thought Tony Blair ‘should be much tougher with IRA’, friend told British prime minister’s chief of staff
US government offered to use spy satellites to verify IRA arms dumps were decommissioned
White House official put forward the idea to the British in 2000, documents show
Michael McDowell pushed for British amnesty for IRA members without trial, UK files reveal
Treatment of the so-called ‘on-the-runs’ later became a major controversy
Tony Blair’s letter saying sorry to Guildford Four was not meant as apology
Newly released UK records show PM intended to stop short of an apology but express regret for miscarriage of justice
The role of Tony Blair’s staff in the barbarous Gaza Riviera plan was beyond satire
Blair’s staff participated in calls about plans to build a Dubai-style dynamic trading and tourism hub out of the ruins of Gaza
Quentin Tarantino understood something Joe Biden did not - how to quit while you’re ahead
The director understood people will remember how you left with grace just as much as they remember how you performed at your peak
Here’s a job for the next pope. Deliver us from climate apathy
We will not make the necessary climate leap if divisions continue - between rite and reason, left and right, rural and urban or young and old
Philippe Sands: ‘The legal order that was created in 1945 is now being challenged around the world’
The Brexit-disdaining, Irish-reunification supporting Anglo-French litigator is coming to Ireland in June
Burning question for Europe now is how to deal with an elected American tyrant
Donald Trump’s presidency has also generated a new focus on questions of identity and doubt in Europe
North of England and its discontents: Long shadow left by Hillsborough remains
The 1989 football disaster changed everything about the way the region thought about London and the ruling elites
More sex, please: Bridget Jones, Colin Firth and the astonishing rebranding of Jane Austen
Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor
‘We’ll see’: Bertie Ahern coy on presidential ambitions as he receives award at Trinity College Dublin
Former taoiseach honoured by university’s Law Society for contribution to building peace in Ireland
Starmer’s political image increasingly at odds with a public mood turning against liberal causes
He seems himself as less ideological than Blair, but he might benefit from adopting the New Labour master’s Machiavellian streak
Musk examines how to oust Starmer as prime minister before next UK election
Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
Bob Geldof warned Tony Blair that failing to support Africans at home would mean upheaval in West
Singer and campaigner wanted ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa with ‘age-defining document’ to redefine relations
Assembly elections postponement ‘the biggest single setback in years’, Sinn Féin warned
The unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony Blair
Tony Blair thought NI nationalists would support England in World Cup if Ireland were out, files reveal
Former PM ‘crestfallen’ when SDLP leader failed to agree with suggestion, officials noted
From Blair and Clinton to civil servants in the shadows, archive papers reveal scale of peace push
IRA Army Council management by Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern’s referendum worries and unionists’ mistrust are revealed in documents
How John Bruton, the last Redmondite, got to grips with the IRA, the UK and the peace process
Once dismissed as ‘John Unionist’ in the Dáil, Bruton’s lifelong interest in history served him in key 1990s talks
Senior British general ‘furious’ about new Bloody Sunday inquiry he saw as ‘cynical political move’
Department of Foreign Affairs found open criticism of political leaders remarkable
John Prescott obituary: Plain-speaking former UK deputy prime minister
In an age when politics became increasingly managed by media advisers known as spin doctors, Prescott stood out as an authentic, if unorthodox, communicator
Former UK deputy prime minister John Prescott dies aged 86
Ex-US vice-president Al Gore says he ‘never worked with anyone in politics’ like Labour politician
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