Perspectives

This part of the study guide will help you put Tony Blair’s speech on terror in perspective by looking at its relevance today and other speeches that you can compare it wit…

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Historical perspective

As a consequence of the 2005 London bombings, Tony Blair and his party proposed a new series of laws, which did not pass in the Parliament. Blair proposed that making a statement glorifying terrorism should become an offense, and also pr…

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Current issues

After 2005, about a dozen of terrorist incidents have taken place in the UK– most of them in 2017. The terrorist attacks from 2017 targeted crowded public places such as Manches…

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Thematic perspective and textual perspective

In your analysis, you can look at other political speeches that are related to the theme of terrorism and compare them to Tony Blair’s speech, in terms of approach, structure, and rhetorical devices.

For example, you could look at George W. Bush’ s 2002 State of the Union address. The speech was delivered four months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US and focused on measures against terrorism. Like Tony Blair’s speech, Bush’s address is structured to describe terrori…