can disagree nobody really knows anything they true even after movies are made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles um The Blair Witch Project people walked out of the Blair Witch Project thinking it Sundance thinking it was completely uncommercial a big pck Greek Wedding oneof the uh Partners in that a what that movie went on to be at the time the highest gross and romantic comedy of all
of Gulf money, particularly. Um So, he's deeply embedded in all of this. Tony Blair is very close to him. Tony Blair has this very large um think tank, I suppose you call it, foundation, Tony Blair um organization foundation. I think it's called Institute.
It relies firstly on a found footage technique, which following the success of the Blair Witch Project in 1999 has been overused in horror films to the point of cliche. And Blair Witch itself, I should note, although undeniably brilliant, had adapted his own found footage technique from the great Cannibal Holocaust, the most notorious of all the video nasties.
It was there in terms of interventions like vaccination to prevent disease. Tony Blair , when he was the prime minister, used to get little discussion groups together at number 10.
A great story, actually. Tony Blair , in his autobiography, talks about his preparation for an election.
That's actually not the problem-solving algorithm at work. Tony Blair praising Jamie Oliver had been the Prime Minister for eight years.
there was prime ministerial direction. So Tony Blair used to call in ministers, So Tony Blair used to call in ministers, he'd call in officials into Downing he'd call in officials into Downing Street and say, "What are you doing?
High Fidelity which kind of came in that extraordinary moment in the in the mid90s with Tony Blair and uh aasis and and blur and and all the rest of it when you look back on on that time do you are those treasured uh is that
And we can talk about just about anything you'd like to, whether it's this crazy period of four years working with those three prime ministers-- the end of Blair , the whole of Gordon Brown, and the first year of David Cameron. Or then the four years after that, when I was in Beirut, and trying to use these amazing new tools-- the smartphone superpower--
She argues back. I argue more. And Tony Blair was there and others, when he was the head of the Quartet.
It feels coming from Westminster a bit like several centuries' time travel to come into this building, especially someone as old as me. So I was Tony Blair 's chief of staff for 13 and 1/2 years, from when he became leader of the Labour Party to when he left Downing Street. He left by the front door, I left by the back door.
But would I especially not tell the securocrats, their name for the police and the army. So I asked Tony Blair , and he said, yes, go. So I took a plane to Belfast and a taxi to Derry.
So let's just take a quick walk through some of the literature. So Steven Blair , he's a professor at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, and he looked at this in what's called the Aerobic Centre Longitudinal Study, which followed over 50,000 men and women over time and along the left side of this graph is something called Attributable Fractions which is kinda fancy word but it's
male #5: Hi. So when I told people that you were coming my Dad told me that you also grew up in Takoma Park and went to Montgomery Blair High School. Eric Hutchinson: Yes, I did.
Eric Hutchinson: Yes, I did. Not a ton of Blair people here apparently but -- male #5: Yeah, cool. Eric Hutchinson: Did you go to Blair ?
wives couldn't find swing in the French dictionary later this is a text message from Tony Blair Blair today did you see the queen yes Michael Sheen plays me in it I know Helen mirin is in it
What is interesting is, over the past decade, I think religion has come back into European politics in a way that people utterly assumed it would go away. The famous Blair quote about, "I don't do God.” Or, no, it wasn't Blair , it was Campbell. "We don't do God on this side of the Atlantic.” I think that's changed. Blair himself spends nothing else other than doing God at the moment. I think you have Brown, you have -- Sarkozy's
And the kind of Blairite middle of the road have struggled, because they haven't really
former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in the room there that's been confirmed to the BBC. Nikolai Maddenov
So then we went to Port Blair and I did my open water course, along with my kids.
And Dan Janzen and Bonni Blair were nominated.
I did a book on Blair , two books on Blair and Brown, before, but this is just a subject that's really important to me.
I was calling him Kevin Blair and he told me it was Bleyer and it rhymes with "liar." So, I got it down.
Not a ton of Blair people here apparently but -- male #5: Yeah, cool. Eric Hutchinson: Did you go to Blair ?
next question then. But I mean, Tony Tony Blair is involved in this, isn't he? He's been there. very involved. Tony Blair is very close to Jared Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, who as well as being his envoy is involved in a myriad business deals involving billions of dollars
Tony Blair is very close to him. Tony Blair has this very large um think tank, I suppose you call it, foundation, Tony Blair um organization foundation. I think it's called Institute. Change. Yeah, there you go.
Um but he is not absolutely, you know, there is no particular connection with the British government. In fact, I've spoken to senior British diplomats over the last year or two who who at times when Blair has been saying things have been saying, "Well, your guess is as good as mine, mate, because he talks to Israelis, he talks to Americans, he won't talk to us." Well, um
conflicts in the world, where other organizations are unable to operate. He was Downing Street chief of staff with Tony Blair . And in 1997 he met Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness and became instrumental in negotiating peace in Northern Ireland.
In another case of Aceh in Indonesia, where the guerrilla forces have been fighting for 30 years, the GAM. In his book, Tony Blair says that I accused him of having a messiah complex, and that's why he managed to solve Northern Ireland.
That's actually not the problem-solving algorithm at work. The two most successful postwar politicians are Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair .
I also want to-- Just a shout out to Ann Blair , who makes the same point in a book that came out six months before my book, which is Too Big to Know.
are the progressives tend to win so I think Tony Blair did that very successfully in 1997 which is why his change message worked and Mrs thater did
changes his tune big-time after meeting Jared Kushner, well, that it's not going to progress. You mentioned the Board of Peace, which Tony Blair is involved in, although he sort of says it's more of a sort of the board of the Board of Peace. He's sort of adjacent to the Board of Peace Let's not go there. Let's not get Let's
And I remember going for a run in the morning with my wife Blair .
from Stratton Oakmont and D.H. Blair did play, or he's just stupid, either way, we don't want to hire him.
no I I I don't think I can do it today I channeled Linda Blair basically I was like okay Linda at your ugliest Moment
The famous Blair quote about, "I don't do God.” Or, no, it wasn't Blair , it was Campbell. "We don't do God on this side of the Atlantic.” I think that's changed. Blair himself spends nothing else other than doing God at the moment. I think you have Brown, you have -- Sarkozy's written about religion. You see the introductions on the East European ones -- the somewhat crazy Polish brothers being a good example -- into European politics.
and one thing that people forget sometimes or don't know is that Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World," taught Eric Blair ,
not get too deep into the weeds of the institutional, you know, Oh, okay. Well, that was going to be my next question then. But I mean, Tony Tony Blair is involved in this, isn't he? He's been there. very involved. Tony Blair is very close to Jared Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, who as well as being his
who's the high commissioner for Gaza, and also the former British prime minister Tony Blair . uh they were in
release deal. The Board of Peace Envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was supposedly in that meeting along with the head of Egyptian
ago at a school in the Washington, DC area called Montgomery Blair .
that when heads of state would come to the United States and they'd stay at Blair House that there was a trap under the toilet to catch their turds
And viewed in isolation, this film is an exemplar of post-millennial kind of unhorrific horror. It relies firstly on a found footage technique, which following the success of the Blair Witch Project in 1999 has been overused in horror films to the point of cliche. And Blair Witch itself, I should note, although undeniably brilliant, had adapted his own found footage technique from the great Cannibal Holocaust, the most notorious
And we created-- myself and my co-founder of GreenLine who is based in Toronto, Blair Steinbach.
and yell at one of his underlings, played by Macon Blair , my good buddy, he does a facepalm.
It takes a long time to get to that stage. We went actually on a walkabout immediately after that meeting, Tony Blair in east Belfast, in a very Protestant area of east Belfast. And he was confronted in the shopping center by a crowd of old women, so hell's grannies, I thought of them as.
And there were people who came from Stratton Oakmont to D.H. Blair and vice versa.
The New York Times realized the analogy, he was the Jason Blair of 20th century biology.
And he said to me, how are you going to introduce me? And I said, I'm going to introduce you as Tony Blair 's former press spokesman. He said, oh, that's all right.