[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of the would be lobbyists by mentioning the £14k per month retainer. Cunningham, who organised the 1992 Labour general election campaign and served as a minister under Blair 1997-1999 (before being reshuffled to the back benches) was the subject of an enquiry by the House of Lords’ Committee for Privileges in 2008 about how, […]
[…] of antisemitism plaguing the party.’14 In short, the Starmer-led faction of the Labour Party has received significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the Blair faction twenty years ago.15 *new* The great churn After more than three years since its first edition, I was finally handed a copy of the wacky […]
[…] “cancer” of antisemitism plaguing the party.’14 In short, the Starmer-led Labour Party receives significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as was the case during the Blair years.15 *new* The great churn After more than three years since its first edition, I was finally handed a copy of the wacky British conspiracy newspaper […]
[PDF file]: […] battle, in particular from Paul Vallely. The paper’s readers were not told that Vallely, created a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the Tony Blair premiership, was ghost writer of the Geldof autobiography Is That It? No critical words about the multimillionaire exBoomtown Rat in Private Eye either: his Ten Alps […]
[PDF file]: […] opposed by openness (good), the actual ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’ of the book reveal that Norton-Taylor is telling a slightly different story. Chief among the villains is Tony Blair. Blair’s refusal to openly admit his commitment to invading Iraq ensured British troops were sent to war unprepared. The lack of training, equipment and local intelligence […]
[PDF file]: […] Pogrund’s book is certainly a corrective to the subtitle of Eagleton’s book: there was no journey to the right; that’s where it started. In this regard Tony Blair comes close to the truth, quoted as saying (p. 184): It’s possible his journey isn’t like Neil Kinnock, where you start on the left and then […]
[PDF file]: […] Iran Superficially, David Cameron’s commitment to war with Iran, in 2012, looks like a carbon copy of Tony Blair’s commitment to war with Iraq in 2003. For Blair, war with Iraq was payback for US and corporate support (e.g. from Rupert Murdoch and the City of London) for his hijacking of the Labour Party […]
[…] Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 18 And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like Mrs […]
[PDF file]: […] in the same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads […]
