[…] I guess, steal – every last barrel of oil on earth to keep its cars and its air-conditioning units running. Even though everyone – everyone bar Tony Blair, it seems – knows it’s about oil, throughout the summer and autumn the media was saturated with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and […]
[…] lobbyist. This isn’t just a matter of old cronies who know each others’ phone numbers. The three principals of LLM each worked as senior advisors to PM Blair during the campaign and individually for Messrs. Straw, Brown and Blair in opposition. They, as other ‘connected’ lobbyists such as Mr Draper, gave me details of […]
[…] off-message On 25 January 2004 The Glasgow Herald reported what were claimed to be the views of senior British intelligence figures in a ‘pre-emptive strike against Tony Blair ahead of the publication of the Hutton report’ (2) The Herald said this of MI6: ‘The key points it wants on the record are: Many had […]
[…] against trade unions and having his substantial profits in offshore accounts, Branson has continued to find favour at the highest level, culminating in his knighthood from the Blair government, something that he was not seriously considered for even under the Tories. Bower also has a good account of the bungled attempt by the magnificently […]
Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the corruption of international justice John Laughland London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press; 2007, £14.99 (UK) $24.95 (US), p/b Laughland is an interesting figure, whose writing appears in media across the ideological spectrum, from the conservative right to The Guardian and here, Pluto Press. It is thus […]
[…] the absence of evidence of the Iraqi regime’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, to the distress of the professional diplomats and most of their intelligence services, the Bush- Blair ‘allies’ used dodgy information from defectors, selectively edited what other information they had, or simply made it up as part of the ‘perception management’ of their […]
[…] groups. I have deleted Henderson’s address, phone number and the url of the website concerned. From: (frankie_number_1) Robert Henderson, the self-styled nemesis of Tony and Cherie Blair is a pedophile (sic). Click on the url below to see one of the dozens of indecent photos of children he is circulating. He has also […]
[…] lives. Their world was one of good schools, private medicine, domestic help and the best holidays money could buy.’ And the influential New Labour MPs around Tony Blair and Brown ranged from those like Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper and Ruth Kelly whose City knowledge was largely journalistic, to Peter Mandelson, with close friends in […]
[…] such thing at all.’ But the major media – there or here – won’t go that far yet. Bits of it may know that the Bush and Blair administrations have run full-scale disinformation campaigns around the war but they apparently cannot acknowledge it. That was Borger on the 4th. On the 7th the wind […]
[…] a new dominion: moral secular authority that did not segmentalise, over the vast unconquered empire of a zillion minds. All this potential was trashed when Prime Minister Blair, and the political cadre alongside him, turned parts of this country’s state machine into a badly fitting condom for America’s dick. Against this background, the country’s […]
