《泰晤士报》2010年8月16日头条：布莱尔捐款5百万英镑以修复其声誉

　　英国前首相布莱尔的朋友们8月15日承认，布莱尔向慈善组织捐出回忆录《旅程》所有收入的决定是为了修复他受损的声誉。布莱尔将把回忆录的预付款460万英镑和回忆录的所有版税收入都捐给皇家英国退伍军人协会。

　　Blair’s £5m donation ‘to repair his reputation’

　　Tony Blair’s decision to donate all of the proceeds from his memoirs to charity was influenced by the desire to repair his reputation, his close friends conceded yesterday. The former Prime Minister is to give the £4.6 million advance for his book, A Journey, and all the royalties from British and worldwide sales to the Royal British Legion. The final sum, likely to be more than £5 million, would be by far the biggest individual donation in the organisation’s history。

　　The move is seen by former Cabinet ministers as an attempt to rebuild a reputation heavily damaged since he left office in 2007 — not only by Iraq, but by adverse publicity about his “money-making exploits”. The Times has been told that Mr Blair had decided “before he put pen to paper”(节选部分)

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