[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of the British Medical Association which has.(22) Julie Lloyd and Steve Potter contribute an essay on Cognitive Analytic Therapy and use it to analyse the speeches of Blair and Bush. They show that Bush, Blair (or their speechwriters, more likely) use language to present their case in the best possible light and play on […]
[…] the old money of the landed aristocracy is still very much part of this picture as is the more recently accumulated wealth of those whose company Tony Blair seems to enjoy. Indeed part of Lansley’s indignation at the growing inequality in Britain is directed at New Labour’s support and encouragement for it – and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] can be learned for the future.’ Not that we’ll ever learn the lessons as the event was ‘off the record’ and closed to the media. Sir Ian Blair on ‘Policing the metropolis: current challenges’. Challenges include ‘…communication and accountability in an increasingly diverse world city…’. This event was also ‘off the record’ and closed […]
[…] 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 […]
