Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its […]
[…] were big wheels in the formation of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 Liddle even standing as a LibDem parliamentary candidate in 1992 before joining the Blair team after the death of John Smith two years later. Now working alongside Thomson in the upper reaches of the BBC is David Jordan, who has […]
Right meets Left The Robert Henderson/Tony Blair story. Having failed to persuade any section of the British political class then in power to do anything about a wrong he had suffered at the hands of the media, Robert Henderson wrote letters to the then Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair – 13 letters in […]
Blair and Gladstone Tony Blair’s Labour Party conference speech this year galvanised the delegates who were especially moved by his suggestions that Britain could play the role of an international troubleshooter, bringing liberal values, civilisation and the benefits of its skills in conflict resolution to troubled parts of the world. There were however […]
[…] mark 1 without all the pseudoscience about the money supply. Because it has started from lower inflation than existed in 1980 the interest rate rises under Brown/ Blair have not – yet – had to have been to be as savage as those of Thatcher/Howe in the early 1980s. Even Hugo Young has noticed […]
[…] British American Project. Both were officials of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs as it became a tame leadership vehicle. Both were very close to Mandy and Blair. Both were very much modernising members of the New Labour Cabinet after the 1997 election. And both were thrown out of the Cabinet. While Smith merits […]
[…] go-between, first with Margaret Thatcher, and later with John Major. This material is extremely interesting, providing, among other things, an insider’s account of Murdoch’s embrace of Tony Blair and New Labour. In a country with a more robust democratic tradition what Wyatt reveals would be a scandal, in Britain we have become so used […]
All four of Tony Blair’s new political appointees at the Ministry of Defence are part of Labour’s Atlanticist network. Three of them, George Robertson, Lord John Gilbert and John Speller, are members of two interrelated bodies, the Atlantic Council and its labour movement wing, the Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). The […]
[…] the Government’s political case without taking full account of the qualifications attached to such information, which is a necessary part of intelligence assessment,” he says.’ (26) In ‘Blair hasn’t even convinced his own security establishment’ in The Guardian of 24 February, Richard Norton-Taylor cited the leaked DIS document and quoted former Foreign Secretary Douglas […]
[…] It is stoic, it is Roman, it is Western. There is also a pragmatism about which politicians to back and which to let go so that Blair and the ex-Maoist Barroso are in, and the traditionalist Gaullist Chirac is out. This is where we need more research. What are the neo-conservatives doing in […]
