[PDF file]: […] in the entire history of imperialism, there has been such a calamitous appointment.’ 6 Sillars used the knowledge he acquired as a law student to pursue Tony Blair for Iraq war crimes, but his accumulated evidence did not impress the Scottish Crown Office and his efforts with the International Criminal Court also proved a […]
[…] – was rising before 2008 and is caused by UK taxes being too low. But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes. While in office Blair, Brown and Balls encouraged the delusion that the UK could have American levels of taxation and EU levels of public services. Apologising for that and the […]
[PDF file]: […] frustration. It always seemed odd to me, living in London but regularly visiting family and friends in the ‘Labour heartlands’, that many party Remainers – from Tony Blair in his prime ministerial pomp to Starmer in his pre-2019 efforts to undermine Jeremy Corbyn 2– failed to address the growing popular feeling against continued European […]
[PDF file]: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark London: Allen Lane, 2012, £30 (h/b); Penguin, 2013, £10.99 (p/b) T here are many things that can be done while one is asleep. Bellini wrote a delightful opera about somnambulism. However it is difficult to share the same sense of fascination or repose even […]
[PDF file]: […] tagging along with the Americans has been disastrous in the last 20 years or so. The real authors of the Manchester Arena and 7/7 bombings are Tony Blair and the rest of the Cabinet who allowed Blair to play the role of George W. Bush’s loyal flunky and so generated this ‘blowback’. But see […]
The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for editorial and proof-reading help. Going round in circles In the section below subheaded ‘What goes around’, I referred to David Teacher’s massive study of Le Cercle. Teacher informs me that his fifth, final and slightly revised version is now on-line.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] bushes in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 or 29 7 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]
[PDF file]: […] conveniently forgotten.4 2 The governments of France, Yemen, and Egypt sought his extradition on charges of recruiting for the GIA, kidnapping, and links to terrorism, respectively. The Blair Government protected Hamza. Another protected asset was Rachid Ramda, head of the London branch of the GIA. He was wanted by the French in connection with […]
[…] in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 7 an economic calamity’.29 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]
[PDF file]: […] only were the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble – our intrepid investigative reporter. What does upset him though is the fact […]
