[…] and his closeness to key people in New Labour to keep his readers in the dark over matters of peace and war and much else under the Blair premiership. Preston practises deception by omission as well as by lying. Network of influence It will take a longer piece than this to trace the network […]
[…] Box 3328, London WC1N 3XX 70pp., £4 Online at http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/rap/rapframe.html There is a very good Website, www.red-star-research.org.uk, which is the best single source of information on the Blair government, its financial supporters and networks. This pamphlet is a kind of spin-off from that site – the previous Revolutions Per Minute pamphlets can be read […]
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, […]
[…] words are substitutes for deeds and orders are taken for their effects. Nor is this a new phenomenon. The political genius of the group that surrounded Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the 1990s was to see this system for what it was and then to develop rules for the acquisition of power that […]
Paul Lashmar and James Oliver Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK) £25.00 hb This is a really interesting and important book – perhaps the most important book about the British secret state since Fitzgerald and Bloch’s British Intelligence and Covert Action in the early 1980s. The incremental uncovering of the Information Research Department (IRD) story has been […]
[…] awarded, without competition, a £32m contract to produce smallpox vaccine. Drayson donated £100,000 to Labour and was one of a small group of businessmen to meet Mr Blair in Downing Street for breakfast in 2001. Britain’s biggest arms deal in history was signed with Saudi Arabia six years into ex-policeman Ray Smith’s campaign to […]
[…] in promoting PFI (Private Finance Initiative) as the solution to the problem of squaring the provision of public services with low levels of taxation. Before 1996, Tony Blair had consistently ridiculed the notion that PFI could be a magic formula that would cut costs and improve services at the same time. The moribund state […]
[…] have argued that his response to the Tonkin ‘incident’ was merely an act of self defence permitted under UN Charter Chapter Seven Article 51. Perhaps it was Blair who pointed out to Bush that his war may have been illegal without UN approval, and that a delay would be needed to create the impression […]
[…] or acknowledged he got that one wrong? No. Is Ware’s change of line and the state’s change of line a coincidence? A sheltered life Fueled by the Blair faction’s determination to avoid reality, we are living through a period of unprecedented bullshit; Orwellian hardly describes it. And it is creeping in everywhere. Tony Frewin […]
[…] is needed before we come to settled views on international affairs. Notes 1 Kingsley Martin, Harold Laski, London: Gollancz, 1953) 2 The core of the Bush ( Blair) doctrine is the free market. Grandin comments: ‘Call it market polygamy, whereby the US can have multiple partners but each of the partners must be subordinate […]
