[PDF file]: […] Minister without Portfolio from 1997 until 1998, when he became Trade and Industry Secretary, acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome. Despite opposition from most of the Cabinet, Blair decided that the project would go ahead. (Carrell 2000) The Millennium Dome was granted £400m of lottery money, and British Sky Broadcasting were among an array […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. ‘ Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported […]
[…] ‘Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson Inquiry about the way the media had treated him. Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]
[PDF file]: […] the list gave only £20,000. An anomaly of the 2015 list is that 70 donations of £1,000 each were made by one person – a certain ‘Anthony Blair’ – to individual Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs). He also gave £6,000 to the central party.3 Clearly then, every year will have its own peculiarities; but one […]
[…] stated openly at the time. Instead Neil Kinnock tried to get the paper changed on the q.t.. He sent a delegation of Eatwell, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair – an early sighting of the Brown-Blair tandem – to see Gould the day before his committee’s document was going to the printer.9 Gould was: ‘extremely […]
[PDF file]: […] at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has always been on Murdoch’s close relationship first with Thatcher and then with Blair and Brown. What McKnight brings out is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch’s affection. While he […]
[…] debt was higher in the 1950s, but HMG was then still paying off the debit created fighting WW2. Desperate stuff from Mr Timothy. The blessed Tony Tony Blair was interviewed in the Observer on 12 September and he said: The day I left office in 2007, we had improving public services, a strong economy, […]
[…] debt was higher in the 1950s, but HMG was then still paying off the debit created fighting WW2. Desperate stuff from Mr Timothy. The blessed Tony Tony Blair was interviewed in the Observer on 12 September and he said: The day I left office in 2007, we had improving public services, a strong economy, […]
[…] reporting of Israeli actions in Gaza. The UK Press Gazette warned in 2015 of the dangers the legislation presented to the media.9 *new* The blessed Tony Tony Blair was interviewed in the Observer on 12 September and he said: The day I left office in 2007, we had improving public services, a strong economy, […]
[PDF file]: […] governments condoning, indeed complicit, in a protracted massacre. The British response to Goldstone By the time Operation Cast Lead was carried out, Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. Brown was absolutely committed to supporting Israel and to keeping in step with the United States but, at least initially, seems to […]
