Memoirs from people who have nothing to say does seem to be all the rage, isn’t it? Next may we expect a Paris Hilton/Prince Charles book on Trans-Atlantic trade? We Yanks already have a book from the White House dog. Yippie!

RG, Arizona, USA

Cherie and Tony undoubtedly heading for divorce

Peter, London,

Mrs Cherie Blair reminds one of the character of Lady Carbury in Trollope's "The way we live now". Lady Carbury is only interested in money and fame money for her son who is a cad and wants him to marry a scoundrel Augustus Memotte's daughter for the money. Melmotte reminds one of Berluconni.

Dr Izhar Khan, aberdeen,

One more person trying to sell a book. Now recalling how upset they were with the past. We should have some kind of law abiding these corrupt people from making more money by "writing" about their time in the office. This is a very disappointing trend.

Rehman, Richardson, USA

My heart sinks as I read more of this dross. Can we stop publishing it please? I feel we are paying her money for every word I read.

Jack Tar, Shanghai,

In the world of make-believe, Blair is a better actor than either Clinton or Bush, but none of them has been briefed on the dangers of believing your own self-serving lies. As for Cherie - watch "I'm all right Jack" again, and cringe.

Julia Iskandar, London, England

Tony Cox from Liverpool - "What a three way combination to stir up the Islamic world"? Get your head out of the sand you effete English ninny. The Islamic world has been "stirred up" for about 1,000 years now......but I suppose that's all George Bush & Dick Cheney's fault eh?

Mike McManus, St. Louis, MO/USA

Tony Blair's heart sank when George Bush became President, but his tale started wagging even faster!

Oleg, Toronto, Canada

"poor grasp of foreign affairs"

Yet Blair said that he would go into Iraq no matter what, this was long before authorisation to invade was given.

Check out the "downing street memo", it shows they knew the intelligance was dodgy. We started bombing in 2002.

USA planned it from 1998 - 2000.

Andrew, England, UK,

He wanted a strong relationship with the President and he got one. Blair as the poodle. the President as the owner

Phil Bailey, Shrewsbury, UK

Tony Blair's heart sank when George Bush became President! I thought they deserved each other. Blair could teach George to string a sentence together without hesitating, and at the same time, become George's poodle via the Vice President. What a three way combination to stir up the Islamic world.

Tony Cox, Liverpool, England

Jon from Sunnyvale - you are absolutely right her thinking she had power. She once started a speech with "We in the government...". She most certainly was not in the government and this gives an insight into her high opinion of herself. A truly hateful woman.

Jack, Stevenage, UK

Of course, by 'us', the Queen was probably including the Blairs, but I guess Cherie is too vain to think of that. The Queen's outlasted Blair, and she'll probably *outlive* Gordon.

Her view of policy through the prism of 'Charles and the boys' is exactly why we have an hereditary monarchy.

Philip Whittington, Isle of Dogs, England

just like our hearts sank when Blair got back in

marcus, horndon on the hill, uk

If his heart sank when Bush became President, how did Blair become Bush's poodle?
Why was he blind to millions of British protesting the Iraq invasion over the false pretext of WMDs? Why did he join Bush in invading Iraq, for its oil?

SM Hussain, Hyderabad, India

On reading what C Blair has written one can see why hubby converted to catholicism. Given who his wife was, he must have realised there was indeed a just and vengeful god.

Derek Smith, Brighton, UK

Poor taste, self serving and completely irrelevant to the times - either then or now. Thanks to the Times for serialising - i may accidently bought a copy and rewarded such utter piffle.

Bruce , Canberra, Australia

"The Blairs’ hearts sank when they learnt that George Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000 had been ratified and that he was to become President of the United States" - Yes - just like the hearts of the 63% of British voters who voted against Blair at the last General Election.

Nick, Brighton,

"she seems to have considered that she had power without responsibility, and we all know whose privilege that is."

Hillary's?

G. Ziemann, phoenix, AZ, USA

An awful woman if there was one. I don't think she even knows that half of it.

duncan, Wokingham,

Oh, come on. She gets to write the sort-of-juicy bestseller and he has to write the dry as dust PM memoir, most of which will be taken verbatim of his daily diary, like Bill Clinton's. They'll both make pots of money without really saying anything important about that time in history.

Deborah, Houston,

Can someone explain why this strange woman was allowed to insert herself into national politics? If she thought she was qualified, why didn't she run for a safe seat? As it is, she seems to have considered that she had power without responsibility, and we all know whose privilege that is.

jon livesey, Sunnyvale, CA/USA