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Jon Dennis

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Tony Blair is at the European parliament listening to MEPs' reactions to his address this morning in which he warned of a "crisis of political leadership" within the EU. Read the full text of his speech here, and stand by for an audio report from one of our reporters in Brussels.

On Guardian Unlimited Sport we'll have live coverage this afternoon from Wimbledon: at 1pm Tim Henman takes on Russia's Dmitry Tursunov on Centre Court, where later today 18-year-old Andrew Murray plays 14th seed Radek Stepanek. The last British woman standing, Jane O'Donoghue, is also in action. And from 2.30pm, join Rob Smyth for ball-by-ball coverage as England's cricketers try to inflict another defeat on Australia in the NatWest Series.

Meanwhile, as G8 foreign ministers meet in London to debate the Middle East, a series of bomb attacks in Iraq has killed dozens of people. The Equal Opportunities Commission is expected to criticise the Ministry of Defence today on the issue of sexual harassment in the armed forces. And we'll have the latest from the Faria Alam industrial tribunal case and the (alleged) shenanigans at FA.

Here on Newsblog, education correspondent Polly Curtis reports on a new website dedicated to banned poetry. One poem, from 1607, is entitled The Censure of the Parliament Fart.

And Jonathan Watts' world dispatch will be examining the significance of a new history textbook, put together jointly by scholars from China, Korea and Japan.

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