[…] is making in-roads into the USA. Sunday Times, 30 July 2000 The Punch story, in issue 117, October 2000, about Sir John Browne of BP, Prime Minister Blair and the Russian oil money comes to mind – unless the retired SIS officer that sits on BP’s board forgot to check out the latest news […]
[…] historical relic of an early twentieth century stitch-up. Those that didn’t were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call […]
[…] John A. Leide. Our military leaders Colin Powell Given the widespread disgust with conventional politics (where Clinton and Bush begin to look as alike as Major and Blair), there has been much mumbling about the possibility of a ‘third party’ in the US. The media’s chosen standard bearer last time was the extraterrestrial Texas […]
[…] like President Putin’s, do not serve British interests, including moral objectives, any more than Mossad’s do. (The last of these could be the reason why Prime Minister Blair has linked his name to ‘saving’ Africa. Previously it was Palestine.) The ‘benefits’ of torture Meantime, Chief Scarlett is presented to the public as an expert […]
[…] discover that he is a member of Labour Reform, the group – to which I briefly belonged – which has been trying, without success, to resist the Blair faction’s destruction of the Labour Party. It isn’t just a cheap point to note that Mr Corfe may have plans to save the world from America […]
[…] reporting in places like Chechnya left states such as Russia free to write their own account of complex and far-reaching conflicts.’ Scott’s death guarantees it. Doubtless, as Blair met with Putin in the latter’s hunting lodge, 11 October 2002, the Russian President – his menu of demands in return for compliance with America-versus-Iraq in […]
[…] fabricated WMD claims as the ostensible causus belli. Reality though, returned to haunt the crippled Bush administration with a vengeance. And if Bush and Cheney (and Tony Blair) had remained true to the last in cheerleading Israel’s chaotic reinvasion of Lebanon of August 2006, plans for the most ambitious Israeli pre-emption yet – the […]
Book Reviews Gerry Healey: A Revolutionary Life Corinna Lotz and Paul Feldman Lupus Books, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR, £15.00 Ken Livingstone MP was given a large chunk of a page of the Guardian (tabloid section p. 13, September 6, 1994) to write a review of this book. The bit that caught my eye […]
[…] switched from one branch to another after the election was called, and had voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest […]
[…] Chairman, Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee) said that Diana should not be given any sort of ambassadorial role. By Summer 1997 Diana was in discussions with Tony Blair about a ‘unique’ semi-ambassadorial role. The ongoing discussions had ‘taken on a fresh momentum in light of Diana’s charity work and her crusade to ban landmines.’(7) […]
