Robinson's poisoned dart is aimed at Tony Blair
17 October, Hugo Young: Politics suffers from chronic over- interpretation. People in my trade are rich in every kind of knowingness. We never like to be caught short of insightful cynicism. In everything there must be connections.

Spliffs v booze
16 October: A welcome softening of the government's hard line on drugs was made at the week-end. Tony Blair made two changes of tack in his interview with John Humphrys on Radio 4's Today programme.

Will the real Tony Blair please stand up?
Andrew Roth writes exclusively for Guardian Unlimited about what drives the prime minister. Read his view of Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy here.

The allure of a sweaty politician
3 October, comment: Generous amounts of body fluids seem to be vote-winners

Buffeted Blairites take heart as party accepts it faces a battle
29 September: Tony Blair often bemoans the lack of clear enemies who can be used to help define his New Labour project - but not this week, when he was beset by enemies, some on his own side, at Labour's 101st conference.

'I am listening ... I hear ... And I will act'
27 September: Tony Blair bounced back yesterday with an impassioned appeal to the "basic decent instincts" of the British people to give him a second chance.

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Blair's speech, part one: 'It's no wonder the government has taken a knock'
No prime minister, no party leader, could have a better deputy than John Prescott.

Blair's speech, part two: 'We are in a fight and it's a fight I relish'
Blair's speech, part one: 'It's no wonder the government has taken a knock'

Dome too ambitious admits Blair
25 September:Tony Blair admitted yesterday that the Millennium Dome has become a liability when he said that the government should never have run the project in the first place.

After the grovelling he became a man transformed
27 September: I sat in the front row for Tony Blair's speech. It was like the monsoon in a Somerset Maugham short story, says sketchwriter Simon Hoggart.

Blair finally takes on enemies of his project
27 September: Since Tony Blair became the Labour leader, he never had to argue with the country. He soothed it, smiled at it, won it. His opponents were so feeble, so divided, so exhausted, so abominated, that he wasn't in a serious fight.

Heat turned on spinners as they try to explain PM's sweat-soaked shirt
27 September: The first tell-tale signs appeared under the collar of the prime minister's pale blue shirt, seeping down his chest under his tie and then creeping across his midriff.

Now the core counts
27 September: There is an irreducible core, that was the message, says Polly Toynbee.

Why the Blair-UK romance had to flounder
27 September: Diana died before she experienced it, but Blair now learns that where illusion takes hold, disillusionment is sure to follow, says Guardian columnist David McKie.

What Blair should say
20 September: Tony Blair's speech to the Labour party conference will be the most important of his life, says Jonathan Freedland.

Blair's bid for a place in history is set for Warsaw
28 September: The Europe question now has exceptional importance in No 10's counsels.

PM's statement jeopardises euro rescue mission
25 September:Tony Blair unwittingly threatened to jeopardise the concerted global rescue mission for the euro yesterday when he suggested that there were no immediate plans for further intervention in the market this morning to support the beleaguered single currency.

Blair ally kept silent on loan to minister
18 September :Tony Blair's close friend, Lord Falconer, failed to inform him about Peter Mandelson's £373,000 home loan, a new book discloses.

Blair's bid to sell to top author
17 September: Tony Blair attempted to stitch up a deal so a friend of his could take over one of the most important political magazines in Britain.

Blair v Brown: stand by for fireworks in the second term
12 September: It is tempting to neuter into extinction the struggle between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Perhaps it no longer matters. Their key battle, over the euro, was three years ago. In the beginning, New Labour was disorganised. It never spun with a single voice. It got the media all wrong.

Blair - bitch or boss? At issue: a government's right to govern
20 September, leader: A breakfast show DJ on the London dance station, Kiss FM, summed up the current political mood with the question: "Is Blair our bitch or our boss?" He proceeded to give this answer : "I say he's our bitch, 'cos he's there to do what we tell him. And if he doesn't wanna be our bitch, then we gonna get rid of him".

Britain grinds to a halt as Blair's pleas are ignored
14 September: An increasingly desperate Tony Blair yesterday warned that lives will be lost if the fuel blockades are not quickly lifted and blamed picket line intimidation for the complete failure to meet his ambitious promise of Tuesday evening that supplies would start to return to normal within 24 hours.

How Blair misread the momentum
13 September: The protesters' victory in France persuaded the prime minister to take a different course

But what if Blair loses?
13 September: This is Blair's first out-of-our-control crisis. Will he win through, asks Michael White.