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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's effort to revive nationalism and instill national pride among the British people is just his latest exercise in public relations. Blair thinks he can take advantage of Britain's new susceptibility to mass sentimentality.

Dave's chronic amnesia was a big talking point at the Countryside Alliance's fundraiser last week. In opposition, Dave made all the right noises about repealing the 2004 Hunting Act but [...]

It's a hat-trick! Word reaches me that Dave may be about to lose his third spin doctor in a row. First Andy Coulson left to spend more time with his [...]

When world leaders and dignitaries gather, there is plenty of pomp to the affair: red carpets are rolled out, flags are raised, armoured cars convoy. Unless, perhaps, the politician is [...]

PIC OF THE WEEK Prime minister David cameron visits Waterstone's in the woolgate, Witney, his constituency in Oxfordshire. Manager Tom Fryer (back row, left) said: 'We had a good chat [...]

AMONG THE DUTIES and responsibilities of a prime minister, inaugurating new animal shelters does not likely rank particularly high. But there was Stephen Harper last week, alongside his wife, Laureen, [...]

WHEN, IN THE lead-up to the last federal election, the Conservative party wanted to portray Stephen Harper as dedicated and hard-working, the resulting television ad showed a solitary Prime Minister [...]

At the end of the first half of Derren Brown's current stage show, Svengali, the accomplished prestidigitator and manipulator of minds makes a plea that no one in the audience [...]

FOR THE RESEAU de Resistance du Quebecois, Prince William and Kate's visit to Quebec is a salt-in-the-wounds reminder that the province is still firmly under the thumb of the monarchy. [...]

Well, that was a quiet week ... After the hysterical response to the Archbishop of Canter-bury's leader in last week's New Statesman, of which he was guest editor, we gathered [...]

I hear a cunning plan by David Cameron to woo Angela Merkel failed after a British actor refused to play his part. The German chancellor shares an unlikely passion with [...]

On the BBC's The One Show on 8 March, the presenter Matt Baker smilingly asked Prime Minister David Cameron: 'How on earth do you sleep at night?' Some have argued [...]

On November 18, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin skated onto the ice to join the Russian national hockey team in a practice. In the end-of-practice penalty-shot session, the shakily skating premier [...]

The Writers' Trust of Canada handed out its annual $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize honouring political writing excellence to John English for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, [...]

A WET PM Stephen Harper waited for almost an hour in the cold rain--without an umbrella--to congratulate moguls skier Jennifer Heil, who won Canada's first Olympic medal at the Vancouver [...]

As the German army reached the city of Leningrad in August 1941, Winston Churchill had to drop his cigar and rush to a meeting. The four-inch stub was picked up [...]

At first, it seemed like a positive sign when Stephen Harper outlined a plan to help the world's poor women and children at the G8 meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Then [...]

On Monday, a group of over 100 Canadian university professors sent a letter to newspapers voicing their discontent with Stephen Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament. They accused the Prime Minister [...]

The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, made an apology to the half a million "forgotten Australians", including British children sent abroad under the Child Migrants Programme, who were abused or [...]

Blair's back. We always know TB is on the scene because GB starts pounding round the office, tearing up bits of paper and chewing the lamps. Peter also spends a [...]

Enjoyable though it was, Stephen Harper's performance of a Beatles song at a ritzy Ottawa gala may wind up being a moment we come to regret. It raised the stakes [...]

ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi's popularity is sliding in Italy, where a sex scandal has affected the media mogul and prime minister's results in the European Union election. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Berlusconi's [...]

'Thursday at 11:44: Harper joins Obama out front and sets a new record for number of waves given by a politician to a crowd not cheering for him.' macleans.ca/feschuk ---------- [...]

A row broke out last week between British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Conservative Party Leader David Cameron over the birth year of the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, and resulted [...]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's failure to invite leaders of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members to a proposed international oil summit damages his reputation in the oil and gas industry. The prime minister can help consumers withstand the effects of high oil prices by removing fuel duties and value added tax on petroleum products.

* The Father of the Nation is on a party offensive to cheer up the glum troops. Gordon Brown tipped up at wee Dougie Alexander's 40th birthday gig in a […]

Last month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made another unannounced visit to Afghanistan. After enduring a couple of months of persistent political heat over Canada's alleged mishandling of Afghan detainees, Harper [...]