Tony Blair was on the front page of the Financial Times this week, as the paper brought word of the former prime minister's plan to open an office in "the increasingly assertive oil-rich emirate" of Abu Dhabi. The FT explained that Blair is expanding his portfolio of business and other interests in the Middle East, which already includes a contract to advise Mubadala, one of Abu Dhabi's mighty sovereign wealth funds.

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They thought it was all over on Thursday, but Italy's defeat this evening confirmed it. England are out of the World Cup, dumped at the earliest possible stage. Now the introspection and recrimination can begin in earnest.

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As D-day reminds us, the EU was born out of war, and Britain's heroic view of that conflict shapes its hostile attitudeThe beaches are quiet now, every last trace of blood washed away. When I covered the 60th anniversary commemorations of D-day in...

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