[…] a direct link between the system that looked after the leaders’ needs before 1997 and the loans scandal of 2006. On the contrary, I would argue that Blair in fact broke with a system that had some inbuilt controls – but it set a precedent for relying on rich men to deal with necessities.(1) […]
[…] pro-European Union wing, as well as in the predominantly pro-EU media, attempt to contaminate them with nationalism – and thus the right. Here is Prime Minister Tony Blair doing it, in his talk to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Leadership Conference, in Australia: ‘…the Labour government I hope to lead will be outward-looking, internationalist and […]
Of the many questions left unanswered from this summer’s so-called Lobbygate furore, one stands out: why did Prime Minister Tony Blair expend so much energy and political capital saving Roger Liddle, the Downing Street adviser who was caught by The Observer offering access through his former lobbyist business partner, Derek Draper? Loyalty cannot be […]
[…] in 1991 along with new TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, Powell has praised the organisation for ‘taking the working out of networking’. Another BAP figure important to Blair in the Iraq crisis was Matthew Rycroft, his private secretary responsible for foreign affairs. In the Cabinet Office, Allie Saunders (BAP 2001) has responsibility for defence […]
The funding of Blair Sometimes chronology implies causality and sometimes not. Consider the following sequence of events: in January 1994 Tony Blair, then Shadow Home Secretary and career-long member of the Labour Friends of Israel, took a four day freebie trip to Israel, with his wife, at the expense of the Israeli government. Two […]
Tony Blair’s rhetoric is heavily if unconsciously littered with fascist buzz words: NATION, NEW, RENEWAL and so on. But there is a greater similarity than single words: Blair frequently expresses ideas which have a remarkable similarity to those of Oswald Mosley. To demonstrate this, I have compiled a series of quotes from Blair and […]
Let’s start with the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris Smith and Marjorie ‘Mo’ Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but both are key figures in the ‘modernising […]
[…] was an immediate evacuation of the bar area and a packing of the zone around the stage. Spacey obliged the crowd with an impersonation of Clinton………(audience hilarity)………. Blair gushed and beamed….Clinton joked ……..(much audience laughter) ….Clinton then moved into statesman mode, telling the crowd: ‘…..I really want to thank the Northern Labour Party for […]
[…] mishmash of Marxism Today’s ‘fetishised’ Thatcherism into Labour policy. Mulgan was part of a 1995 ‘secret committee’ led by Mandelson ‘to examine policy changes’, which met with Blair on alternate Fridays. The group contained no MPs, preferring Roger Liddle and Derek Scott (both former SDP), Patricia Hewitt (not then an MP), and TV producer […]
[…] chaired by Chris Fay, Chair of Shell UK. (7) The Kensington Tesco was the preferred location when the PM launched his 1999 ‘Annual Report’. In October 2000 Blair gave the major keynote speech to a Conference on the Environment jointly hosted by the CBI and Green Alliance.(8) Finally, the rumour post election that Nick […]
