{"id":85186,"date":"2019-03-21T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/21\/history-ought-to-take-a-more-balanced-view-of-tony-blairaposs-record-as-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:25:49","slug":"history-ought-to-take-a-more-balanced-view-of-tony-blairaposs-record-as-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=85186","title":{"rendered":"History ought to take a more balanced view of Tony Blair&amp;apos;s record as prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this extract from their new book, Jon Davis and John Rentoul, who teach a course in The Blair Years at King&#8217;s College London, argue that many of the criticisms of New Labour in government are unfounded<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/long_reads\/tony-blair-iraq-war-history-record-heroes-villains-davis-rentoul-book-a8807361.html\" target=\"_blank\">History ought to take a more balanced view of Tony Blair&amp;apos;s record as prime minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this extract from their new book, Jon Davis and John Rentoul, who teach a course in The Blair Years at King&#8217;s College London, argue that many of the criticisms of New Labour in government are unfounded Via: History ought to take a more balanced view of Tony Blair&amp;apos;s record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}