[…] not ‘feed into the intelligence process’. But how can they not? How could they not in the case of the Iraq war? Everybody and their cousin knew Blair had agreed to support a US attack; and supporting the Americans is the political consideration which is always in the intelligence process. The authors tell us: […]
[…] London’s Guildhall in March 2008. On the Goldsmiths, see the article by Simon Matthews in Lobster 55 (2008), pp. 32-36. Noble’s book is Notes From the Old Blair and Bush, 2008, under the pseudonym Ernest Organic. It perhaps has a psychological parallel in the work of Jung, where the potentially threatening dark confusion of […]
[…] 70 page, perfect (glue) bound pamphlet, part commentary on and part supplement to George Monbiot’s book The Captive State. It covers all the main agenda items: the Blair administration’s obsession with big business; PFI spreading throughout the public sector; the government’s Task Forces dominated by business personnel and the role of groups such as […]
[…] was shown by the Daily Telegraph’s report on 7 April: headlined ‘Africa becomes vital front in war on terror’, the story by the Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent David Blair told us that ‘Meanwhile, a belt of countries in the Horn of Africa and on the southern fringe of the Sahara could, say US officials, become […]
[…] at a dead-end: believe it or don’t. Assertion plus documentation opens doors, empowers. For example, in a really splendid and splenetic assault on Our Great Leader (T. Blair) he quotes extensively from the material on the British American Project for the Future Generation and TUCETU in Lobster 33. But the source is not given. […]
[…] Democrats willing to take before they conclude that attack may be the only form of defence? Notes I haven’t read the party’s history before 1960 and don’t know. A great deal of this critique of the Democrats – fear of the spooks and the media, for example – applied to the pre- Blair Labour Party.
[…] and father-in-law of Roger Liddell, the SDP founder member and lifelong pal of Peter Mandelson, who became adviser on Europe and defence at No 10 when Tony Blair became Prime Minister. Liddell, like his wife’s father, gravitated to a Brussels job when Mandelson became an EU commissioner. Lord Thomson, who shared his son-in-law’s strong […]
[…] Alan Petty (aka author ‘Alan Judd’) an ex-MI6 officer and member of MI6’s secretariat – in effect, the Chief’s private office – is a friend of Tony Blair. ‘Judd’ was briefly the motoring correspondent of the Spectator. In one of his early columns, he joked that in his previous occupation he’d had to changes […]
[…] and when she went down, so did they. (For a while they seemed to genuinely believe that Mrs Thatcher was a libertarian; a bit like believing that Blair and Brown are socialists. ) The book’s title is slightly misleading: the sociology takes up only a small section at the end. This is basically a […]
[…] has omitted too much, too obviously. Notes 1 Co-author of CIA and the Labour Movement (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1977) and pioneer in the exposure of IRD’s role in post-war politics. 2 He is currently writing a splendid column in Tribune in which his rhetorical powers are regularly trained on Tony Blair et al to great effect.
