SpinWatch
The Art of Always Being Right, by Arthur Schopenhauer 38 rhetorical tricks guaranteed to win you the argument even when you are defeated in logical discussion. New Statesman review
Basildon treated to Blair and Prescott double act - 09/04/97
Spin doctor Campbell 'can be reprimanded' - 16/06/98 The head of the civil service has told MPs he has the power to tick off Alistair Campbell if he becomes too political
Labour blocks inquiry into special advisers - 11/08/98
Labour activists told: 'Smear Lib Dems' - 22/09/98 An internal Labour document advises local parties to smear the Lib Dems and make secret deals with the Tories to attack them
Cash for spin - 16/11/98 Blair's official spokesman and chief spindoctor Alastair Campbell earns more than £90,000 a year
Taxpayers give Blair spin team a £1m rise - 17/04/99
Hague attacks 'Labour hypocrites' - 07/10/99 accusing the prime minister of lying and breaking his promises... "According to Labour's own magazine, 'Tony's favourite food is fish and chips. He gets a takeaway whenever he is at home in his constituency.' "But when The Islington Cook Book asked him the same question he said his favourite food was 'fresh fettuccini garnished with an exotic sauce of olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and capers'."
Voters think they are being misled but still support Teflon Tony - 05/11/99
Conceived by a spin doctor? - 19/11/99
Blair: North-South divide 'a myth' - 05/12/99
Poverty report challenges Blair - 08/12/99
Blair weakens Prescott powerbase - 13/12/99 All the spin doctoring in the world cannot hide the fact that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been deprived of a huge part of his power base by Tony Blair
Government developing 'new rebuttal system' - 07/01/00 to keep Whitehall "on message"
Blair draws 'bigger picture' - 21/01/00
Health row tempts Blair to delay election plans - 23/01/00
Straw finds the formula for survival - 23/01/00
Is this the secret of Labour's success? - 23/01/00
Labour marks 1,000 days - 26/01/00
Voters 'unhappy' with Labour - 27/01/00
Cook hails 'internationalist century' - 27/01/00
Dome bosses brush off low figures - 04/02/00
Blair calls for unity across UK - 06/02/00
Blair's visit 'blatant electioneering' says SNP - 06/02/00
Brown predicts £1bn charity boost ("civic patriotism") - 09/02/00
Blair loses battle of the bleepers - 10/02/00
Online and on message (Blair spins on the web - using public money) - 11/02/00
PM webcasts to the nation - 11/02/00
10 Downing Street Weekly Webcast
Government 'spins NHS funding pledges' - 14/02/00
Ministers defend 'retelling the truth' - 17/02/00
You can't spin London - McLaren - 24/02/00 "voters will not tolerate the Labour party trying to manipulate the city into accepting a candidate that nobody wants"
Labour leaders deny grassroots drift - 25/02/00
Blair shifts on GM food - 27/02/00
Old Labour's silent witness (Charles Clarke) - 28/02/00
Blair volunteers for community work - 01/03/00
Campbell can work for Labour over lunch - 04/03/00
Blairs block nanny memoirs - 05/03/00
Nanny row: How the events unfolded - 05/03/00
Blair denies union will break - 09/03/00
PM goes on the attack - 10/03/00
Beckett: Labour message 'hard to get across' - 13/03/00
What's to be done about Mandy? - 10/03/00
Blair defends tax record - 15/03/00
Ayr defeat 'just mid-term blues' - 17/03/00
Rift over flood aid 'exaggerated' - 14/03/00
Blair: Anglo-German relations best ever - 25/03/00
Blair misled House on NHS - 26/03/00
Blair defines 'British values' - 28/03/00
Blair waves the pre-election union flag - 28/03/00
Blair stands by Byers over Rover - 29/03/00
Labour brainstorms for election - 31/03/00
Blair denies Labour 'losing touch' - 07/04/00
Short attacks 'heartlands' focus - 07/04/00
Labour condemns Byers 'witch-hunt' - 12/04/00
Blair attempts to scare the stay-at-home voters - 14/04/00
Blair losing sparkle, but Hague is no boy wonder - 14/04/00
Apathy fails to halt swing to Labour - 14/04/00
No 10 denies writing royal Diana speech - 17/04/00
MPs delay report on Prescott flat - 19/04/00 The Labour-dominated Standards and Privileges Committee, which adjudicates on breaches of Commons rules, had been expected to approve publication today. A meeting yesterday broke up without reaching a conclusion and the committee will not meet again until May 9, the week after the elections.
Households face £150 bill to meet recycling target - 19/04/00 The details are in a draft policy document on waste which was due to be published earlier this month. It has been held over until after the local elections in England on May 4 because of its "embarrassing implications" for Labour.
Blair roadshow on use of NHS cash - 24/04/00
Blair changes tack to pull in the grey vote - 27/04/00
I worry about my hi-tech children, confesses Blair - 03/05/00
NHS advert 'misled on nurse pay levels' - 03/05/00 Government advert said average nurses earned more than £20,000
Blair to reshuffle Cabinet after poll disasters - 06/05/00
Our biggest threat is cynicism, says Blair - 10/05/00
Blair bullish on long-term policies - 10/05/00
Blair pledges to cushion loss of 2,000 Ford jobs - 11/05/00
Tories see No 10 note as threat to impartiality of Civil Service - 15/05/00
NHS waiting list pledge "met" - 17/05/00
Blair: I can persuade the people to scrap pound - 21/05/00
Dunkirk ships sunk by the Dome - 24/05/00 one Jane Stancliffe, of the Heritage Lottery Fund, questioned the "heritage merit" of the project.
Blairs' friend is made editor of News of World - 24/05/00
Labour accused of deceit over health spending - 24/05/00
Baldrick goes forth to Labour executive - 24/05/00
Cash for 'successful' Dome defended - 25/05/00
Rail's future is 'bright' - Prescott - 25/05/00
Cabinet offensive targets 'populist' Tory policies - 26/05/00
Cook attacks Whitehall 'elitism' - 27/05/00
Secret memo shows Labour fear of Hague - 28/05/00
Blair puts his trust in original spin - 28/05/00
Hague attacks 'class war' by Labour - 29/05/00
The forces of desperation - 29/05/00
Half Blair's focus group volunteers have quit - 29/05/00
Blair's authority will be at stake if health crusade fails to deliver - 01/06/00 Behind the scenes, Downing Street aides and Mr Milburn's staff have been heavily spinning to convince journalists that the reforms they propose will be the biggest since the founding of the NHS.
Tories pick up the scent of Labour 'panic' - 02/06/00
Lord Sawyer: Blair 'has lost his popular touch' - 05/06/00
Blair 'flicks through' press - 06/06/00
Hardworking job seeker? Do not apply within - 07/06/00 !!!!!!
Ministers lose control of sensitive statistics - 07/06/00
We kept Freetown free, for heaven's sake - 07/06/00 the Government decided that it was time for Alastair Campbell to brief in detail. But he made a hash of it, getting the village name wrong, the number of dead wrong and mistakenly calling the troops Paras.
Brown's hotline for tax dodgers does not exist - 07/06/00
Blair's back with appeal to tradition - 07/06/00
Women give Blair hostile reception - 07/06/00
Blair speech backfires badly - 07/06/00
RealVideo clip of Blair's WI speech - 07/06/00
Was Blair invited or not? - 07/06/00
Blair handbagged by WI hecklers - 08/06/00
Blair humbled by forces of conserves - 08/06/00
Tame audience that didn't care for being used - 08/06/00
Blair is clapped out - 08/06/00
No jam tomorrow as Blair bombs at Wembley - by Boris Johnson - 08/06/00
WI puts Blair in his place - 08/06/00
Unlikely warriors [WI] see off PR invasion - 08/06/00
Grey wolves [WI] sink false teeth into Prime Minister's platitudes - 08/06/00
No 10 was warned against party politics - 08/06/00
Blair says tradition is bedrock of change - 08/06/00 Tony Blair tried to throw off his reputation as a "control freak" in his speech to 10,000 members of the WI
Spin doctors blamed over WI speech - 08/06/00
Labour on the offensive - 08/06/00
Downing Street: No regrets over WI - 08/06/00 "Almost all the catastrophes of the last three years have been PR catastrophes" - Roy Hattersley. [But everything that Blair has done in that time has been PR anyway.]
WI fiasco could be turning point - 08/06/00
Blair 'all spin and little delivery' - Field - 09/06/00
Labour's lead over Tories is halved - 09/06/00
Downing Street machine grinds on after the handbagging - 09/06/00
This is what you should have said, Mr Blair - by W F Deedes - 09/06/00
'Politics is never, ever discussed at [WI] meetings' - 09/06/00
Members enjoy their public relations coup - 09/06/00
10,000 housewives can't be wrong - 09/06/00
Putting Blair's name to a faceless enemy - 09/06/00
Stunned Blair to 'come out fighting' - 09/06/00
Hague attacks PM's 'empty promises' - 09/06/00
'This row is just a smokescreen for Blair's problems' - 10/06/00
Britain raises a glass to toast the WI hecklers - 10/06/00 "I think he's told a lot of lies and let a lot of people down"
Blair's WI humiliation born in the USA - 11/06/00 THE disastrous speech made by Tony Blair to the Women's Institute "borrowed" its key themes from a book written four years ago by Bill Clinton !!!!!!!!!!
Secret memo says Blair is out of touch - 11/06/00 TB has not delivered. He said he would improve the NHS and public services, he said he would change Britain, but instead things have got worse
Labour's fallen hero - 11/06/00 The WI and the latest Gallup poll show the rising tide of disapproval with his failure to deliver
The day the [Blair] magic died - 11/06/00 "it felt as if I had switched on the television and was watching a party political broadcast"
No 10 fights to remain on course after poll plunge - 12/06/00 Fewer and fewer people believe Tony Blair's promises any more
Analysis: Labour slides as voters lose faith - 12/06/00 this is an administration more concerned with headline seeking than responding to the needs of the nation
The man who warned No 10 over that WI speech - 12/06/00 He lacks conviction, he is all spin and presentation, he just says things to please people, not because he believes them
Blair 'treats Commons as poodle' - 12/06/00
No, Prime Minister - 12/06/00 TB, or rather his government, is soft on crime, does not stand up for Britain
There's a Right way and a wrong way for Tony Blair - 12/06/00 Swift wrote that, "It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee house for the voice of the kingdom".
Labour trading 'aid for votes' - 12/06/00 Government is accused of playing politics in order to help Labour-held areas in North
No 10 told to cut the spin as poll lead dwindles - 12/06/00 Tony Blair told a period of 'straight talking' to public is needed
The leaked memo - 12/06/00
Call to curb 'President' Blair in monthly cross-examination - 12/06/00
Campbell spins out of sight - 14/06/00 Prime Minister's spokesman to cut back on regular face-to-face briefings with Lobby journalists
Limit spin doctors, committee insists - 14/06/00
Alastair Campbell retreats to backroom - 14/06/00
Has the spin doctor had his wings clipped? - 14/06/00
Campbell tries to spin himself a web of invisibility - 15/06/00
Blair tax spin 'misleading' - 21/06/00 Mr Blair did not respond to Mr Hague's claims of cabinet splits
Brown 'suppressing' euro debate - 21/06/00
Blair tax spin 'misleading' - 21/06/00
UK will be 'Europe's corporate HQ' - 22/06/00 "In principle we favour joining a successful single currency" - Blair
Labour denies women voters' exodus - 24/06/00
Blair obsessed by spin, says BMA - 27/06/00 "NHS Direct is the brainchild of Tony Blair and it will be nurtured and protected like baby Leo, aired only when needed for political spin"
Row over Labour's new spin offensive - 28/06/00
Officials drew up plans for NHS cuts cover-up - 29/06/00
Officials briefed health ministers 'to cover up cuts' - 29/06/00 Civil servants also rejected idea of writing to MPs to explain decision over key health programme
GPs attack Labour on 'cynical' use of Shipman - 29/06/00 Doctors accuse Government of cynically manipulating scandal over serial killer
Blair plans concessions to head off party revolt - 30/06/00 Prime Minister ready to make offer to party trade unions and Labour activists over pensions and mininum wage
Peter Riddell on Politics - 30/06/00 Image conscious Blair has to deliver the goods
Ministers fear 2001 election too early - 30/06/00 Tony Blair warned to delay an election until last moment or risk voter backlash
Petrol prices 'not our fault' - 01/07/00
Blair's blackest art - by Ken Follett - 02/07/00 'the shockingly rapid return of Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet gave the impression that we are as soft on sleaze'
Key Labour backer turns on 'cowardly' Blair - 02/07/00 the Prime Minister who had made 'malicious gossip an everyday tool of modern British government'
Blair firm on petrol prices - 02/07/00
Labour hits back at 'slurs' - 02/07/00
Follett steps up Blair attack - 02/07/00 ... described spin doctors as the "rent boys" of politics
No 10 cuts up rough over pupils' picture of baby Leo - 02/07/00 'Snatched' photograph of Blair newborn sparks furious protest from Downing Street
Blair's allies deride Follett 'rant' - 03/07/00
Sacked minister backs Follett - 03/07/00
Blair backs down on fining 'louts' - 03/07/00
Ken Follett: Novel activist - 03/07/00
Field threatens to reveal all on Blair's spin-doctors - 04/07/00
Labour MPs back Follett attack on spin culture - 04/07/00 Three senior figures join Tories in stepping up attack on Government's culture of spin
Tories in a spin over Labour's love of advisers - 04/07/00
Castle attacks 'intolerant Labour' - 04/07/00 Baroness criticises New Labour's style of leadership for first time, accusing it of stifling dissent
Blair's foreign appeal fading - 04/07/00 "Mr Blair is past his sell-by date," a senior official in the administration of Lionel Jospin said the other day
Leaked memos look like a campaign - 04/07/00 it is increasingly looking like the rival camps are engaged in virtual open warfare over the issue
Labour dubbed 'government of gimmicks' - 05/07/00
Questions over Blair's Commons blunders - 05/07/00
Blair's 'spin not substance' slip sums up nightmare day - 06/07/00 Prime Minister ridiculed in Commons by Conservatives over his climbdown over on-the-spot cash fines for louts
Blair son arrested and gives false name - 06/07/00
Blair's son 'drunk and incapable' - 06/07/00
Blair addresses black church groups - 06/07/00
UK will have black PM: Blair (to a black audience!!!) - 06/07/00
Drunken Euan rounds off Blair's awful week - 06/07/00
Blair: 'Being a parent is tougher than being PM' - 07/07/00
Poet to whom Blair turned in moment of strife - 07/07/00
Privacy, the press and the Prime Minister's son - 07/07/00
A man whose faith was tested - 07/07/00 Tony Blair heralds policies to reduce racial inequality in employment
Home truths pay off for a haunted Father Tony - 07/07/00 Blair's speech writers, inexplicably, had produced the same old junk again
Wife backs Follett attack on spin - 07/07/00 Prime Minister faces another embarrassing call for new Labour to 'clean up its act'
Blair rallies Labour activists - 08/07/00
Blair branded 'religious fraud' - 09/07/00 Labour party veteran attacks prime minister over his entourage and his lifestyle
This is the crumbling of Blair the unbeliever - 09/07/00 Blair lacks any firm political beliefs, is ignorant of history and unable to think complicated issues through
Punch drunk in Downing Street - 09/07/00 He used to be sure of touch. But now even allies of Tony Blair ask if he can cope with the pressures of power and family
Shining a light on the dark art of spin - 09/07/00
Ministers keep the party happy with concessions on pensions and low pay - 10/07/00
Labour pledge of £50bn for transport - 10/07/00 Government spending initiative first in series of moves aimed at winning back support after recent setbacks
Blair faces cronyism gibes over Birt's job - 10/07/00 Fresh accusations of spin as former BBC Director-General takes post as powerful new adviser on crime
When life became all too real for No 10 - 10/07/00 Increases in spending have been exaggerated; Expectations were raised that were bound to be disappointed
Prescott to be government 'evangelist' - 10/07/00 It is always a sign that Labour is in trouble when John Prescott is wheeled out to keep the troops on side
Blair to take on Hague in 'spin' battle - 11/07/00
An insider's guide to the undercover policy discussions - 10/07/00
Naipaul blames Blair for plebeian society - 11/07/00 Trinadad-born author accuses government of destroying Britain's great cultural history
New Deal youths lose jobs within 13 weeks - 11/07/00 Critical report shows a quarter of people in employment scheme fail to complete the programme
Blair to present annual report - 11/07/00
Good news on jobs spearheads Labour relaunch - 12/07/00 Government to announce that one million jobs have been created since last election
Tesco to sell Blair to voters again - 12/07/00 Supermarket chain to stock Government's annual report despite lagging sales last year
New Deal claims 'exaggerated' - 12/07/00
Blair denies 'annus horribilis' - 12/07/00 He rejected the suggestion that the past few weeks had been damaging for the government, insisting that the "personal difficulties of the past week to 10 days" would not "decide the future of the country." <---- INCREDIBLE! The little rat is hiding behind his own son!!!
Blair "moves back to substance" - 12/07/00 referring to his son Euan's night on the tiles, he declared: "There have been some personal difficulties and what not."
Blair: The Relaunch - Fair start, but those targets deserve a ticking-off - 13/07/00 Tony Blair to announce that Government has fulfilled three fifths of 177 commitments in 1997 manifesto
Straight from the leader's mouth - 13/07/00 Prime Minister to take personal charge of promoting Government's message before general election
Law and order - 13/07/00 Tough on the critics of crime measures
The economy - 13/07/00 Pledges are not all they seem
Health - 13/07/00 Waiting for results
Education - 13/07/00 Progress at primaries
Unions dish the dirt on New Deal - 13/07/00 Eight young people recruited to keep Swansea's pavements free from mess
30 students 'pull out of Oxford' - 13/07/00 State school applicants withdraw because of government's 'elitism' attacks
Blair taunts Tories over tax U-turn - 13/07/00 Prime Minister seizes back initiative and dismisses claims of party divisions
Annual report cuts out the spin - 13/07/00
Under-fire Labour hails progress - 13/07/00 The UK prime minister says "a lot has been done" in his annual report, but the Tories describe it as "self-congratulatory rubbish".
Ministers seen as 'automatons' - Hain - 13/07/00
Labour warning as report published - 13/07/00 the report has coincided with a warning to the party by Peter Hain, who has said the government is out of touch with the voters
Leaders battle over Parliament - 13/07/00 Hague called for an end to the culture whereby government intiatives were launched on the Today programme and not to Parliament
Britain to stand by Falklands - 13/07/00 Security of islands ensured for as long as territory needs to be defended
Gaffes and errors scupper Blair relaunch - 14/07/00 Mr Blair admitted the Government still had "a lot to do"
Blair U-turn on Annual Report - 14/07/00 Prime Minister forced to into move after criticism over details on manifesto pledges
Grammars 'will be gone by 2011' - 14/07/00 Student selection will become irrelevant as literacy and numeracy improves says Education Secretary
Vacuous drivel is disgrace to Civil Service - 14/07/00
Blair's report 'meaningless publicity stunt' - 14/07/00 Conservatives dismiss prime minister's brochure as representing 'fantasy' world
TV film shows No 10's anger at the press - 14/07/00 Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell disagree on who decided to scale down media secretary duties
Labour lead halved as Blair boasts - 14/07/00
Promise keepers? - 14/07/00 In fact, there have been few targets in any areas which clearly show whether government money has been spent wisely
Tony Blair? He's a silly little man - 15/07/00 Doris Lessing derides what she calls new Labour's philistinism
New Labour unveils its spinning plans - 16/07/00
Leaked Blair memo: We are out of touch - 17/07/00 Blair asked his advisers to draw up measures to combat the Tories' populist initiatives, and said he should be personally associated with the Government's fightback - in other words: "come up with some bright ideas and let me take the credit for them"
Blair: Labour looks weak and soft - 17/07/00 Devasting leaked memo reveals Prime Minister believes he and Government perceived as 'out of touch'
Blair's blueprint for the fightback - Threats fail to plug leaks from No 10 - 17/07/00 Latest unauthorised disclosure came from Prime Minister's personal computer
The memo in full - 17/07/00
Full text of Blair memo - 17/07/00
Most damaging leak yet - 17/07/00
The new strategy - 17/07/00 Labour attacks Tory 'magnificent seven'
Inquiry into leaked Blair memo - 17/07/00
Crime statistics deal new blow to Blair - 17/07/00
Brown told not to 'hype' spending - 18/07/00
Special Branch to investigate Blair memo leak - 18/07/00
Downing Street fears more leaks are on the way - 18/07/00 Tony Blair acknowledges 'storms' around him as inquiry begins into Government's most severe security breach
We are bridge to America, says Blair - 18/07/00 American Bar Association delegates in London told Britain is ready to act as 'leading partner' in shaping Europe
Brown fires election starting gun - 19/07/00
Blair's aide: New Labour is 'contaminated' - 19/07/00
Brown woos voters with £43bn spree - 19/07/00 Chancellor puts Labour on road to general election with big spending increases
Labour is adrift, Blair warned in new leaked memo - 19/07/00 Personal opinion pollster suggests Government brand has been 'badly contaminated'
Labour's leak - 'We are too late on NHS and soft on crime' - 19/07/00 Philip Gould, Tony Blair's focus group guru, believes policy setbacks mean the Government has to reinvent itself
The history that haunts new Labour's leaders - 19/07/00 The Gould memo reveals much about historical fears following swift defeats after victories in 1964 and 1945
Focus falls on the Fifth Man - 19/07/00 Blair, Brown, Mandelson and Alastair Campbell are household names with Philip Gould in shadows
The Chancellor's speech - 19/07/00 Brown sings praises of his own prudence
Chancellor's splurge leaves Labour with no excuses - 19/07/00
Total public spending 2000-2004 - 19/07/00
The policy - 19/07/00 Cabinet makes a stand for stability
How they cashed in - 19/07/00 Cabinet ministers celebrating spending increases
Standards - 19/07/00 Money linked to performance targets
City reaction - 19/07/00 Pressure on inflation feared
The debate - 19/07/00 'A return to tax and spend'
New Labour is object of ridicule, Blair adviser warns in fresh leak - 19/07/00
Extracts from Gould memo - 19/07/00 "We are outflanked on patriotism and crime; we are suffering from disconnection; we have been assailed for spin and broken promises"
Blair braced for more leaks - 19/07/00
What did the leaked memo say? - 19/07/00 Pollster Philip Gould's memo - Getting the Right Place in History and not the Wrong One: "We are outflanked on patriotism and crime; we are suffering from disconnection; we have been assailed for spin and broken promises..."
Labour's leaks: A recent history - 19/07/00
Brown rejects 'tax and spend' charge - 19/07/00
The Downing Street [leak] suspects -19/07/00
Blair focuses on world stage - 20/07/00
Ministers round on Blair advisers - 20/07/00 Downing Street braces for further memo leaks as Cabinet ministers express mistrust of advisers and pollsters
Memo leak puts Blair's pollster in the spotlight - 20/07/00 Labour critics question value of research after damaging newspaper leaks
It's a mistake to shoot the messenger - 20/07/00 The very use of the term "brand" in relation to new Labour shows what is wrong
People 'do not believe Blair's fictions' - 20/07/00 William Hague invokes Winston Churchill as he accuses Tony Blair of being obsessed with style and spin
Blair hopes no new is good news - 20/07/00 He is to drop the Labour Party's "new" label
Search begins for the Westminster mole - 20/07/00
Why 'Fifth Man' [Philip Gould] is falling foul of public scrutiny - 20/07/00 Mr Gould was brought into the Labour machine by Peter Mandelson in 1985, as part of the efforts to improve Neil Kinnock's image
Watch out, Big Brother is on a small screen near you - 20/07/00 the "super-computer" is now being programmed to hold details of all aspects of every citizen's life
Hague in full flow over leaks but Blair stays silent - 20/07/00 "You don't need to write memos about getting your place in history because we and the British people will make you part of our history far sooner than you ever expected."
Memo to Gould: wasn't this your idea anyway? By Boris Johnson - 20/07/00 Blair has stuck to the Gould plan like glue, and now what does the great pollster discover? According to this latest amazing memo, the public don't seem altogether impressed
What are they for? - 20/07/00 What must concern the ordinary voter is what these astonishing documents reveal about the nature of the Labour government.
Prescott shows contempt for Gould - 22/07/00 Chancellor openly expresses disapproval of Labour pollster whose memos were leaked to journalists
Cabinet agrees to draw a line under euro rift - 22/07/00 Pact designed to heal rift over British entry into the European single currency until after general election
Brown's sums are 'spin not substance' - 23/07/00 The Government's carefully spun promises on public spending were beginning to unravel yesterday after calculations showed that Gordon Brown's figures do not add up to the record increases he promised
Messages from Machiavelli - 23/07/00 Philip Gould was back in business at Downing Street on Thursday morning, just 24 hours after another of his brutally candid memos found its way into the newspapers
The Prime Minister has killed his own creation - 23/07/00 First, he killed his father, Old Labour. Then, this week, his child, New Labour.
The voter who has lost faith is Mr Blair - 23/07/00
'Policies, not opinion polls' - Hattersley - 23/07/00
Blair rubbishes 'frothy' leaks - 23/07/00
'Limit spin doctors' response - 26/07/00 As well as a doubling of special advisers across the whole of Whitehall, Number 10 alone now employs 25 political staff, three times as many as under John Major
No immediate cap on spin doctors - 26/07/00
Blair will put limit on spin doctors - 27/07/00 Government to cap number of Whitehall special advisers
Public loses faith with quangos - 27/07/00 Two thirds of people believe appointments are politically influenced
Response deserves no more than two cheers - 27/07/00 It is not always clear where information stops and propaganda begins
Clinton adviser with an eye for popular issues - 27/07/00 Stanley Greenberg has the ear of President Clinton, President Mandela and Tony Blair
Prescott's lesson in 'Blair speak' - 02/08/00
Ministers 'misled' public over scale of Dome's losses - 06/08/00
Blairs greet press with sound of silence - 09/08/00
Labour condemns attack on Cherie Blair - 09/08/00
Miss Booth or Mrs Blair? - 09/08/00
£43bn spending plans boost Labour in poll - 11/08/00
Blair in touch about being out of touch - 11/08/00
Blairism fails to win place in dictionary - 11/08/00
Ex-Radio 3 head says Cabinet is philistine - 14/08/00
Radio 3 ex-chief taunts 'philistine Blair' - 14/08/00 Scathing attack from leading arts figure accuses Prime Minister of preferring pop to art
Prescott attacks 'callous' Tories - 15/08/00
Blairs in fresh paper row - 19/08/00
'Red Oskar' lashes out at New Labour's platitudes and broken promises - 21/08/00 Oskar Lafontaine, the former German finance minister, has launched a scathing attack on Tony Blair and New Labour
North-south divide 'getting bigger' - 21/08/00 as denied by Tony Blair on 05/12/00
Blair faces backlash on North-South growth gap - 22/08/00
Prescott pledges help to farmers who back horses - 26/08/00 "For three years a party that hasn't a clue about the needs of the countryside has ignored them. John Prescott borrowing a pair of wellies for a couple of hours won't change a thing."
Blair avoids battle with press over Euan affair - 30/08/00
Blair calls truce with the media - 30/08/00
Orwellian nightmare or brave new world? - 31/08/00
Labour accused of deceiving voters over the euro - 31/08/00
Labour launches attack on euro-sceptic press - 01/09/00 Mr Vaz will condemn what he claims is evidence of media xenophobia
Minister [Vaz] attacks 'xenophobic' press - 01/09/00
Carnival assaults being played down, say police - 01/09/00 The level of crime at Notting Hill Carnival in London was deliberately understated for "political reasons", a police officers' leader said yesterday
Tories screen Labour's broadcast - 01/09/00
Blair unveils internet plans - 11/09/00
Dewar fires opening shot in election battle - 12/09/00
Milburn accused of spin and lies - 15/09/00
Humbled Blair tries to restore credibility - 15/09/00
Polls and taxes - 18/09/00
Mandelson 'sobbed as he was told to resign' - 18/09/00 Officials have always insisted that Mr Mandelson resigned voluntarily
Blair's fightback starts in Brighton - 18/09/00
Call to ditch 'New Labour' - 18/09/00
Minister [Charles Clarke] jeered for 'populist' attack -19/09/00
Ecclestone: A problem of perception - 19/09/00
Brown's word games backfire - 20/09/00
No 10 'poison squad' collaborated in book - 21/09/00 Downing Street officials confirm participation of senior aides in controversial account of Government practice
Blair faces crucial conference - 22/09/00
Anger as Blair links values of Christ and Labour - 22/09/00
Blair comes out fighting - 24/09/00
In pictures: Labour Party conference - 24/09/00
Party falls flat for the chardonnay socialists - 25/09/00 Ministers now admit privately that Labour could lose the next general election
The public wants Blair to apologise - and he should - 25/09/00
Blair not sorry for Dome flop - 25/09/00
Prescott takes on the world - 25/09/00
Blair to take fight to Tories - 26/09/00
What do people want Blair to say? - 26/09/00
Blair pledges to make amends - 26/09/00
Blair: In his own words - 26/09/00 "By nature I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus..." yes he actually said that.
Blair delivers the speech of his career - 26/09/00
Prescott rallies Labour troops - 28/09/00
Mandela thrills Labour conference - 28/09/00
Blair's net access claims condemned - 19/10/00
Euro: Blair says not yet - 19/10/00
Blair bids to neutralise euro issue - 19/10/00
Uproar after drugs policy is leaked by spin doctors - 02/11/00
Blair setting out 'big choices' - 03/11/00
Rural police told to advertise - 06/11/00
Blair's 'patriotic' European vision - 13/11/00
Blair ducks the euro - 13/11/00
Mr Nasty and Mr Nice (Cook & Blair) - 14/11/00 The European Commission plans to scrap Britain's veto in nearly 50 categories of policy
Blair's pledge to keep UK veto on tax - 14/11/00
We'll nail the lies on Europe, says Cook - 14/11/00
Blair says thank you - 15/11/00
Blair gears up for election - 17/11/00
Blair turns on 'Euro army' critics - 21/11/00
Blair leaves Thatcher era - 22/11/00
Blair denounces tabloids - 23/11/00
Blair appoints 'patriotism envoy' - 25/11/00
Labour claims New Deal success - 30/11/00
Labour 'spins web site of deceit' - 03/12/00
Hague: Yob crackdown is 'all spin, no delivery' - 06/12/00
Blair talks up EU summit hopes - 07/12/00
ITV's Blair show attacked - 11/12/00
Labour attacks 'desperate' Hague - 19/12/00
Blair promises to spend, spend, spend - 31/12/00
Blair 'proud' of Labour donors - 07/01/01
Blair: Economy key to election - 07/01/01
Straw's crime plan a 'gimmick' - 10/01/01
Waiting lists cut again - 11/01/01 However, the waiting list to see a consultant for a first appointment - the so-called waiting list for the waiting list - has
increased sharply
Labour pledge failure defended - 12/01/01
Blair will make hunting ban an election pledge - 14/01/01
Cabinet's own marriage failures force retreat on traditional wedlock - 14/01/01
TV debate pressure 'on Blair' - 16/01/01
Blair 'no' to TV election debate - 17/01/01
Blair ducks TV debate - 17/01/01
Chicken Blair avoids TV poll clash - 18/01/01
Labour move is pure cant and arrogance - 18/01/01 Mr Blair and his advisers have repeatedly said they back the principle of a televised debate
Blair's 'blue funk' over TV debate - 18/01/01
Mandelson is gone for good - they'll miss him at the election - 25/01/01
It's 'business as usual' for Blair on campaign trail - 26/01/01
Clinton aides gave Labour media advice - 23/01/01 They urged the Labour leadership to bulldoze its way through periods of bad press
A terrible time for Blair to lose his master of spin - 25/01/01 The effect on Labour
Blair tells activists: Prepare to campaign - 25/01/01
Campbell denies putting the knife into Mandelson - 29/01/01
Pushed out by panic - and a collision of spin - 29/01/01
Vaz to sue over 'vindictive lies' - 29/01/01
Blair calls poll 'council of war' - 30/01/01
Tories take aim at Campbell - 01/02/01
Unspinning the message - 02/02/01
Blair rallies industry - 02/02/01
The new image 'Cross my heart' logo mystifies Labour MPs - 05/02/01
Blair unveils his vision of a second term - 09/02/01
Prescott defends Labour's record - 09/02/01
Blair sets Ragin' Cajun on Hague - 11/02/01 James Carville recruiting team of fellow Americans to help Labour take on the Tories using most modern election techniques
Old Masters are banished from Blair's picture - 13/02/01
Things can't get better for Blair - 15/02/01
Blair's big idea to improve society is the baby bond - 15/02/01
Blair's baby talk - 15/02/01
Brown promises to eliminate child poverty - 17/02/01
Look out Alastair Campbell, he's watching you - 17/02/01
Labour: 'The party of the family' - 17/02/01
Labour delegates' great expectations - 17/02/01
Labour targets 'boozy' Hague - 18/02/01 The personal attack on the Conservative leader is a clear sign of concern within the Labour party that his appeal is growing
No 10 spins its own news on 'Pravda.com' - 18/02/01 the government's new online news service will offer the key stories of the day presented the way Alastair Campbell, the prime minister's spokesman, wants them reported - at a cost of millions to the taxpayer
Blunkett and Prescott turn on Campbell - 18/02/01 In In strikingly similar broadsides that bore the hallmarks of a co-ordinated rebuke, they criticised the Government's dependence on "spin"
Blair outlines party vision - 18/02/01
'Give me second chance', says Blair - 18/02/01
Blair: we will win on the economy - 19/02/01 [As I predicted in 1997, Labour is trying to take the credit for the economy it inherited]
Meaningless Blair - 19/02/01 "Our family is the human race and each and every person belongs to it" etc...
Blair wants 'best of both worlds' - 22/02/01
Blair the globetrotter - 22/02/01
Campbell and Powell too powerful, say MPs - 13/03/01
Special advisers on 587 foreign trips since 1997 - 20/03/01
Cumbria gets the green light from Blair - at last - 23/03/01 Blair arrives in Carlisle - with a team driven in two Jaguars
Wizard curse? I've had spell of good luck, says Whelan - 26/03/01
Election hopes are going up in smoke - 28/03/01
How it took 37 days to ruin the country - 29/03/01 Within a week, Mr Blair seemed to have forgotten the countryside crisis... after a fortnight he launched a global charm offensive... yesterday he made it clear that tourism, not agriculture, is his priority... he has focused on winning his second term... He must accept the blame for the delay in deploying the Armed Forces
It's going to be May 3 'cos the Sun says so - by Boris Johnson - 29/03/01 Blair's MPs fear an economic downturn in the autumn
Labour's crusade for religious vote - 29/03/01
Blair risks row over role for his aide - 30/03/01
Special advisers warned against helping Labour - 30/03/01 The number of special advisers has doubled under Labour to around 80, and nearly half of them work directly for Tony Blair
Nick Brown: Outbreak 'under control' - 01/04/01
Tourism drive as disease spreads - 06/04/01 Blair urges people to return to the countryside as fears grow that foot-and-mouth may have hit another prime tourism spot
Labour trumpets class size 'success' - 06/04/01
Heads sceptical over 'falling' class sizes - 06/04/01
Nick Brown: Disease 'spread by farm families' - 10/04/01
Ministry in 'numbers cover-up' - 10/04/01 It is politically attractive for the Government to say the number of outbreaks published are going down or are flat, while very probably the number of farms being killed out has risen enormously
An epidemic of untruths - 12/04/01 Labour has been looking for scapegoats for its own inadequacies in the fight against foot and mouth; farmers, Chinese restaurateurs, supermarkets, whoever fits the bill that day, gets a bucket of unattributable pigswill thrown over them by one spin doctor or another
Downing St in a spin over Campbell job - 12/04/01
Campbell to leave frontline - 12/04/01 to take a backroom role if Labour wins the general election, it has emerged
Spin doctor makes his own headlines - 12/04/01
Blair calls for pact with teachers - 12/04/01 based on "honesty and trust"
Blair 'misled public over EU reaction force' - 12/04/01 This force is not locked into Nato, it will compete with Nato and undermine our defence
Campbell quotes - 12/04/01 "I've never misled anybody" etc...
Pop stars and PM's shouldn't rub shoulders - 14/04/01 De:reem has asked that its song, Things Can Only Get Better, is no longer connected to the Government
Labour Party goes out of fashion with designers - 14/04/01 "if the present Government gets closer to becoming part of the European Union, then I think I'm going to find myself becoming a lot fonder of Hague."
Whitehall told to do what it does best: be boring - 16/04/01
Government is advertising's top spender - 17/04/01 Government spending on advertising has increased steadily since Labour was elected. In 1997 it was £43.8 million but by 2000 this had more than doubled to £102.7 million
Army called in too late, admits MoD official - 19/04/01 The Government didn't call the Army in was because they didn't want to make it look like a crisis that would force them to change the May election date. The irony is that because they did nothing they turned it into a major crisis which forced them to push back the election anyway
UK hails progress in disease fight - 20/04/01 UK? No, actually it was the government's chief scientist, Professor David King
Labour campaign lifts off on song - 20/04/01 see nauseating photo of Blair patronising black musicians... Labour spokesman: "We are lifting Britain up and taking it to a better future."
Thank heavens Tories are no good at 'virtual politics' - 24/04/01 Mr Brown is angry because he believes that a speech of Mr Cook's gave out the "wrong message" (i.e. revealed the truth) about Labour's attitude to race
Labour accused of 'stealing' policies for Scotland - 24/04/01
Blair's £500 pledge for every baby - 25/04/01
Bush's black spin doctor backs Hague - 25/04/01 she told the Tories yesterday that they were the victims of a Labour "dirty tricks" operation designed to portray William Hague as a racist
'Playboy' asks Blair in-law to pose nude - 25/04/01 She once lambasted No 10 for treating her half-sister Cherie like a trophy wife, saying Cherie was being "wheeled out like a little cake"
UK 'winning' asylum battle - 25/04/01
Ministers double advert spend - 25/04/01 £62.8m for this year's first three months - two and a half times the amount in the first quarter of last year. Cabinet Office Minister Ian McCartney insisted that the rise in spending before a likely election was a coincidence
Taxpayer 'footing Labour propaganda bill' - 26/04/01 in 1988, Tony Blair was highly critical of spending on advertising by the Tory government... In power, Labour has significantly increased the Whitehall advertising budget. Oops: Ian McCartney, the Cabinet Office minister, confirmed that the advertising campaigns were intended to to portray the Government in a favourable light!!!
Blair's 'obscene' £63m pre-election advertising spree - 26/04/01
Blair banks on baby savings scheme - 26/04/01
Labour denies 'baby bonds' poll bribe - 27/04/01
Baby bonds are long on rhetoric, short on detail - 27/04/01
Taxed from cradle to grave - 27/04/01 "Peerages for calves? No. Cash for peers? Sounds right but I don't think it is. Ah yes! Cash for babies! Brilliant.
Why Blair decided to rescue Phoenix - 27/04/01 The timing of the decision resulted in "Blair saves calf" headlines on the 10 o'clock news
Promises cost them nothing - for now - 29/04/01
Campbell spins himself a nice little general election earner - 29/04/01 unlike Tory and Liberal Democrat spin doctors, will be paid from the public purse during the campaign
'Epidemic over, now for election' - 03/05/01 Blair to declare that the Government is winning the battle against foot and mouth
Speaker clashes with Tory MPs over Blair - 03/05/01 He allowed Blair to avoid answering a question about the collapse of the Wembley stadium project... the opposition see Mr Martin as biased towards the Government and say he is not up to the job
Council accuses Brown over 'election' letter - 03/05/01 Copies signed by the Chancellor were sent to schools with the instruction that they be distributed among parents
UK 'winning disease battle' - 03/05/01
Blair tries to heal rift with countryside - 04/05/01 £10 million will be invested in business consultants who will tour the country giving free advice to farmers
Some farms are nowhere near the home straight - 04/05/01 Foot and mouth is now "fully under control", declares Mr Blair. But no, Mr Blair, you cannot sweep this virus under the Devon and Somerset countryside. A virus does not meet election schedules
Britain leads the world on risk of being assaulted - 04/05/01 Charles Clarke, Home Office minister, said that, between 1995 and 1999, overall levels of recorded crime fell faster in England and Wales than the EU average. However, most of this decline took place under the Tories!!
Blair urges asylum law reform - 04/05/01 turning race into an election issue
This crisis cannot be put in a box, say farmers - 06/05/01 Blair's claim that the foot and mouth crisis is effectively over provoked an angry reaction from farmers and the tourist industry yesterday
Blair starts to pile pressure on BBC before poll - 06/05/01 to ensure that its coverage is not dominated by stories embarrassing to Labour
Here beginneth Blair's crusade - 09/05/01 Mr Blair had chosen one of the schools that his former Cabinet colleague, Harriet Harman, had rejected for her children
Surely, children of the future will be adults - 09/05/01 The Prime Minister announced the election before the massed pupils of a south London comprehensive school. Comprehensive schools are important to New Labour politicians. They go to great lengths not to send their children to them
Blair warns of cynicism - 09/05/01 then tries to claim the Tories will be "desperate" to avoid a debate about policy during the election campaign!
Brown upbeat on economy - 09/05/01
Head appalled by 'panto' politics - 09/05/01 Irene Bishop says she is deeply unimpressed by the "pantomime" that has followed the announcement of the general election by the prime minister on a visit to her south London secondary school
Promises, promises - 09/05/01
Day the Prime Minister learned a lesson - 10/05/01 one girl "covered her head with her pullover as Mr Blair rambled on about devolution". Another described him as "a big crook"
Blair vows not to raise tax on high earners - 10/05/01 he wants his campaign to be "a conversation with the electorate"
Speech at school rebounds on Blair - 10/05/01 Blair was so busy looking at the cameras that he did not pay attention to the choir as it sang... The girls had been taken to the hall before the visit to be told when to clap
Like Kinnock in Sheffield, Blair has betrayed himself - 10/05/01 everything about the performance was in bad faith and worse taste - "I stand before you today with a sense both of humility and hope" - but everything about the event implied the opposite
Blair names economy as 'defining issue' of the election - 10/05/01
Darling accused of scaring pensioners over Tory plans - 11/05/01 Labour tried this scare in 1997. The public won't fall for it a second time, particularly from a Government which insulted pensioners with a measly 75p-a-week increase
Telegraph focus group: Blair fails school test but is still a winner - 11/05/01 He took off his jacket to say, 'I'm like you' but he's not one of us."
Men only banned by Labour's gender agenda - 11/05/01 Labour has banned all-male platforms at press conferences and other major election events
Row over Labour's new waiting list figures - 12/05/01 doctors have been forced to treat patients on the basis of how long they have been waiting and not on the basis of clinical need
Panorama banned from Blair press conferences - 12/05/01 effectively denying them the opportunity to ask questions of the Prime Minister during the campaign - Labour "News Management" strikes again
Union turns down poll clash plea - 12/05/01 Labour tried to get the the 300,000 strong Communications Workers' Union to postpone their potentially embarrassing conference until after the election - but this time the "News Management" failed!
Blair's revenge - he bans Rory Bremner from battle bus - 13/05/01 the television impressionist who satirises Tony Blair as a neurotic ordered around by his press secretary has been banned by Labour from travelling as an accredited journalist on its election battle bus
Why must Labour hide its face from the likes of me? By Rory Bremner - 13/05/01 When I first met Tony Blair in 1996 he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. Four years on, he appears careworn and paranoid
Children should not be allowed to exploit Mr Blair - 13/05/01the Prime Minister "feels betrayed by almost all the people he once trusted, like a child let down by adults"
Left woos youth with scratchcard for videos - 13/05/01 the cards, which are aimed at first-time voters, contain an individual pin number that can be used to access the party's website and enter special areas where pop videos and youth policies will be displayed
Blair's 'glitz and froth' style of government fails to impress the floating voters - 13/05/01 voters think that Tony Blair is "cheesy" and his Government has "no vision or principle"
Labour's 'big idea' - 13/05/01 Labour's big idea for the future is the "development of human potential"
Blair counters 'spin' claims - 15/05/01 Peter Mandelson makes a veiled criticism today of Labour's campaign
Blair encounters giant spin machine on Highland fling - 15/05/01 yesterday showed that Mr Blair is not yet ready to risk random encounters with the public
Labour is true party of business, claims Brown - 15/05/01
A Tory tabloid says 'vote Labour' - 15/05/01 Defend the pound, beware Europe, lock up criminals ð this is familiar Sun territory. So how come it's backing Blair?
Blair looks to third term with pledge of enterprise - 16/05/01
Blair looks to American zeal in drive to woo business - 16/05/01
Blair risks wrath of left in public sector reforms - 16/05/01 Blair will unveil a Labour manifesto today outlining sweeping reforms of the public sector
Police face big pay and pensions shake-up - 16/05/01 The Government is anxious to avoid a damaging backlash from rank-and-file policemen before polling day on June 7
Blair sets out objectives - 16/05/01 Labour election manifesto, Ambitions for Britain, to be published today
Rachel Sylvester: Election Analysis - 16/05/01 The Prime Minister sees the transformation of Britain's relationship with the Continent as a defining mission. But he will not be saying so today
Labour plans radical decade - 16/05/01 the manifesto features seven pictures of Mr Blair inside but none of his fellow ministers
Blair's 'Ambitions for Britain' - 17/05/01 summary of Labour Manifesto
George Jones: Manifesto Analysis - 17/05/01 Blair is offering to achieve Left-wing goals by Right-wing methods... the manifesto leaves open the question of what will happen midway through the parliament
Eggs fly. Prescott cracks. And Labour's big day is scrambled - 17/05/01 a day on which the launch of Labour's manifesto was overshadowed by a series of angry protests at Tony Blair and his ministers over the Government's record
Prescott swings from left - 17/05/01 Blair will be horrified that such a display of anger will have dominated the news bulletins and wrecked the coverage of the party's manifesto launch
Frank Johnson: Campaign Sketch - 17/05/01 Mr Blair was accompanied by - in ascending order of importance to him on this particular day - the Chancellor of the Exchequer; the Minister of Agriculture; a veritable operating theatre of spin doctors; photographers; and television camera crew
Matthew Parris: A craven audience at court of King Tony - 17/05/01 "That's a sweet poster, did you make it yourself?" "No, we were issued with them"... An elderly man with glasses was suddenly pinned to the wall by a Labour Party marshal. It was done with huge violence and took the old man by surprise. And in walked Tony Blair
Stars back Labour - 17/05/01
Blair woos 'one nation' Tories - 18/05/01
Hard hat for Prescott - 18/05/01 Some journalists were ordered to leave before Mr Prescott arrived despite having previously been cleared by security
Labour woos grey vote - 19/05/01 Hague accusing Labour of "cheek" following the 75p-a-week rise in the basic pension
Labour accused of 'gimmickry' over low fares for pensioners - 20/05/01 as the party unveiled a 10-point "charter for pensioners"
Blair under fire from boardrooms - 21/05/01 Labour's claim to have replaced the Conservatives as the party of business is challenged today by more than 140 leading businessmen and women
Overkill - 22/05/01 It is a tribute to Labour's presentational skills that, as the number of slaughtered animals has climbed above three million, foot and mouth has virtually disappeared from the news
TV to blame for protests, says Labour - 22/05/01 Labour officials appeared angry and embarrassed that its attempt to put pressure on broadcasters had leaked out
Labour fury at TV 'setting up protests' - 22/05/01 Labour general secretary Margaret McDonagh wrote confidentially to broadcasters accusing them of "inciting and colluding with" anti-government protesters
NHS plan hit by TV row - 22/05/01
Labour has no policy other than annihilating the Tories - 22/05/01 Gordon Brown has taken to talking about "irresponsible" Tory tax cuts as if it was inherently immoral to allow people to keep and spend their own earnings
Farming row erupts - 22/05/01 Foot-and-mouth has resurfaced as an election issue - with the government being accused of giving misleading information about the extent of the disease's decline
Gordon Brown's phone-in - 22/05/01 Whoever you were, wherever you were calling from, and regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation, Mr Brown was willing to be evasive with you
Labour wriggles over 50pc tax - 23/05/01 As Mr Brown stonewalled at the press conference, he was seen fiddling nervously with his pen
Maff 'hiding behind law to conceal true picture' - 23/05/01 The Ministry of Agriculture is using the Data Protection Act to block information on the numbers and types of most animals culled
Blair clears TV over 'protest collusion' - 23/05/01 Labour is now trying to justify Miss McDonagh's outburst - seen at Westminster as a crude attempt to "lean" on the broadcasters
Labour 'boost' for schools - 23/05/01 Blunkett promises an extra 10,000 teachers by 2006
Frank Johnson: Campaign Sketch - 25/05/01 voters do not seem to want someone amusing, knowledgable and convincing. They prefer Tony Blair
Time to change Labour's single currency mantra - 26/05/01
Milburn: Tories pose a 'trojan horse' threat to the NHS - 26/05/01 But Labour faced embarrassment when staff shortages forced the closure of a paediatric unit in Rochdale shortly before Cherie Blair was due to visit
Blair film gets personal - 27/05/01 a "nauseatingly hypocritical vanity film"
Jospin reveals 'superstate' plan - 29/05/01 Labour, clearly embarrassed, sought to divert attention... and denied that Downing Street had pleaded with Mr Jospin to delay his speech until after June 7
The campaign turns personal - 30/05/01 Labour launched a poster depicting Mr Hague's head with Lady Thatcher's hair, while John Major attacked the Prime Minister's record of "spin and deceit"
The character question - 30/05/01 With Mr Blair "what counts is what works", though his definition of "what works" has more to do with electoral success than real benefit to the nation
Blair accused of 'suspect judgment' in Microsoft visit - 30/05/01 Television viewers saw Mr Blair framed by the company's logo and the name of the product, barely 24 hours before its launch
Campbell's pay-off queried - 31/05/01 ...public perception that Labour was receiving an "inappropriate subsidy from the taxpayer"
He said that last time - 02/06/01 The message of this year's Labour campaign is almost exactly the same as last time: schools and hospitals are in a terrible state of neglect; vote Labour to save them
Labour is 'running scared' of Humphrys - 02/06/01 by refusing to allow any of its ministers to go on the Today programme
Tell Gordon to stop playing games - 12/06/01 Robin Cook's former adviser, David Clark, urges Blair to stand up for the euro... the purpose of the "five tests" is political; to enable Labour to time any referendum to suit its own interests rather than Britain's
Cook 'gagged on euro' - 12/06/01 Senior cabinet colleagues were afraid any debate on the issue would harm Labour's chances of winning the election
Euro gag claim 'nonsense' - 12/06/01 Labour's new party chairman, Charles Clarke: "the suggestion that anybody's been gagged is absolute nonsense"
Bucking the system - 28/06/01 Anyone who believed the second New Labour government would be humbled by its massive victory and start behaving less like an elected dictatorship after 7 June will have been disappointed by its behaviour so far
Minister 'invented' report showing his policy was success - 10/07/01
Smith apologises for inventing report on PFI 'success' - 11/07/01
Blunkett to make CID look like extra police - 15/07/01
'Spin' jibe over school privatisation - 16/07/01
Blair's aims over unions' heads - 16/07/01
Blair defends missing annual report - 18/07/01 The first annual report was called So What Do You Think, the second So What Are We Doing. This year's seems to be called So Where Is It?
Tube reports being 'suppressed' - 18/07/01
Turbulence over Blair's choice of a cheap airline - 14/08/01
Blairs Bargain Break Blag: Foot And Mouth 'Stunt' Attacked - 30/08/01 Tony Blair's attempt to show his solidarity with the tourism industry has backfired - after he tried to undercut the very people he was supposed to be helping
William Hague: I sounded the alarm about asylum seekers months ago - 07/09/01 In the weeks before the election, Tony Blair was adamant that Britain's immigration procedures were coping with the volume of asylum seekers arriving at our shores, and that the situation was getting better by the day. The truth emerges that the asylum system is actually close to collapse
Campbell ousts the Chief Whip - 07/09/01 Tony Blair has given his director of communications, Alastair Campbell, his own house in Downing Street!!! Tony Benn: "it just tells you everything about what is going on"
Byers in row over housing scheme announcement - 07/09/01 Labour plays its double-counted expenditure trick (again): the Government had already publicised the £250 million Starter Home Initiative 10 times between July 2000 and April 2001
Muslim and Christians share values - Blair - 27/09/01
New currency for a new world - 03/10/01 "The true followers of Islam are our brothers and sisters": Blair posing as a "war leader", but after his speech the Pound immediately fell by 1.25 cents
Blair's speech to the Labour Party COnference - 03/10/01
Tough Talk From Blair on Taliban - 03/10/01 his speech seemed intended as much to herald the beginning of a new world order - with Mr. Blair somewhere close to its helm
Blair Leaves British Awed or Seething Over His Role - 05/10/01 self-bestowed success claimed too quickly
Teacher statistics 'massaged' - 05/10/01 2,500 of the "new" teachers are not fully qualified, in breach of the government's own guidelines... vigorously denied by the Education Secretary, Estelle Morris
This is good time to 'bury' news, says Byers aide Jo Moore - 09/10/01 She sent this email within an hour of the Trade Center attack: "It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury. Councillors' expenses?"
Byers aide apologises for 'attacks memo' - 09/10/01 Shortly after the e-mail was circulated a press release was put out over an increase in payments to councillors - normally a controversial local issue. Jo Moore is still in her post! A "leak" inquiry is underway
Sept 11: 'a good day to bury bad news' - 10/10/01 around Westminster, where there was shock and distaste at Jo Moore's cynicism, it was thought that she would have to go
Danger signals - 10/10/01 Number 10 was quick to say there was no reason for Jo Moore to resign!
Jo Moore's chief error was in getting caught out - 10/10/01 Manipulation of the news is the very stuff of Labour's culture of obsessive media control
Jo Moore, the aide who rose to power by fighting the Left - 10/10/01 It was Mandelson who took her on as a press officer
Adviser 'should quit over spin e-mail' say relatives of those who died - 10/10/01 but Stephen Byers continues to value her skills and experience
Pressure mounts on terror memo aide Jo Moore - 10/10/01 Conservative Party chairman David Davis urges a high-level investigation: "This is something that assaults the integrity of the British civil service"
Tories call for inquiry into Jo Moore's "bad news day" email - 11/10/01
Byers accused in 'dirty tricks' row - 11/10/01 He is accused of forcing a career civil servant out of his post after he refused to "spin" against the head of the London Underground. A dirty tricks campaign designed to discredit Bob Kiley is said to have been orchestrated by Jo Moore
Byers faces dirty tricks claims - 11/10/01
Blair, addressing the troops: "One of my sons wants to join up" - 11/10/01 funny that there was no mention of that before 11th Sept... and Mr Blair did not specify which of his children had military ambitions
Byers may be sidelined over Railtrack crisis - 12/10/01 Downing Street has tried to distance the Prime Minister from the row surrounding Mr Byers over the alleged "dirty tricks" campaign
Snubbed Blair is turned away by Saudis - 12/10/01 but the spin continues: "I know that Islam is a peaceful, tolerant religion" etc...
Byers sticks to the script while fury mounts - 14/10/01
Dark arts of spin rebound on aide who called September 11 'a good day' - 14/10/01
Jo Moore was only following orders - 14/10/01 by Charlie Whelan
Byers defied Campbell to save Moore's job - 16/10/01 backbench Labour MPs added to the calls for her resignation
Terror memo aide Jo Moore breaks cover - 16/10/01
Moore apology in full - 16/10/01
Blair overacting, says EU envoy - 16/10/01 Louis Michel, the Belgian foreign minister, accused Tony Blair of "grandstanding" on the world stage while indulging in "overly aggressive" rhetoric
Public apology by Byers adviser - 17/10/01
Sorry mess as Jo Moore makes her apology - 17/10/01
No need to panic about Anthrax, Milburn insists - 17/10/01
Spin doctor Jo Moore should quit - colleague - 17/10/01
Why sorry may not be enough - 17/10/01 Ms Moore has been at the heart of Labour's spin machine for almost a decade... Downing Street has been insisting that "spin is dead" (like Foot and Mouth disease)
Byers hit by Tube cash claim - 17/10/01 he said he was increasing support for the Tube when he knew government investment was dropping by 30%
Storm over Government 'burial' of brain blunder over BSE tests - 19/10/01
Jo Moore caught burying bad news again - 29/11/01 she ordered civil servants to brief selected journalists about Railtrack under cover of the Chancellor's pre-Budget report
Spin doctor Jo Moore under fresh fire - 29/11/01
Jo Moore cast adrift by ministers and officials - 30/11/01 senior figures at Westminster lined up to accuse her publicly of having a "corrosive" effect on the Government... raising fresh doubts about Mr Byers's judgment for defending her
Blair-Brown 'pact' denied - 02/12/01
Marsden quits, tired of control freaks and spin - 11/12/01
Blair to put Parliament before the media - 11/12/01
Bell backs Filkin over 'whisperers' - 22/12/01
A woman scorned - 22/12/01 When a ministerial source recently suggested that Filkin had been a member of the International Marxist Group, she replied: "There's more chance of me being a lap-dancer"
Blair: Britain has pivotal role - 05/01/02
Campbell reveals details of his '24 carat crack-up' - 07/01/02
Blair flies home to frosty welcome - 08/01/02
Blair's surreal show for the cameras - 11/01/02
Blair's bully-boy gag on patients - 25/01/02 Ian Duncan Smith accused the Government of "smearing" Mrs Addis's family, using "Labour's spin machine" to make them "pariahs" for complaining about the hospital's treatment
Labour's insult to injury - 25/01/02 "Do not complain or else"
Hospital sorry for race slur on Rose - 25/01/02
Father in 'Jennifer's Ear' case feels used - 26/01/02
Labour vent fury at McLeish aide - 26/01/02
Don't blame us for poor service, says Blunkett - 02/02/02 after 5 years of Labour!
Blair denies Africa trip is 'designer diplomacy' - 07/02/02
Moore tries to bury news with Margaret - 14/02/02
Spin doctor denies new 'bury bad news' claim - 14/02/02
Ministry 'at war with itself' - 14/02/02
Whitehall civil war spins out of control - 14/02/02
Whitehall at war over spin doctor - 15/02/02
The facts about a political adviser, an angry email and a royal funeral - 15/02/02
'Villain' driven by loyalty to Labour - 15/02/02
Questions for the PM - 15/02/02
Spin memo row duo quit - 15/02/02
Spin doctors depart from battlefield - 15/02/02
Byers ordered to end spin feud - 15/02/02
Q&A: Whitehall spin row - 15/02/02
Jo Moore's resignation letter in full - 15/02/02
Pressure grows for spin doctor curbs - 16/02/02
Lies, damned lies and Labour spin - 17/02/02 Can we trust a single word the government says?
Donors, diplomats and spin doctors: key players behind the scenes in the rows that rocked the government's credibility - 17/02/02
Sunday Times leader: A soiled reputation - 17/02/02 the government is finally paying the price of its arrogance and contempt for anyone who questions it
King Tony exiles blame from his