[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] a normal life.’ Sweet FA A rather lower level of punishment came the same week for Lord Triesman, the former New Labour Foreign Office minister under Tony Blair. The ex-communist multimillionaire, a close friend of New Labour fundraiser Lord Levy, and the party’s general secretary between 2001-3, had been appointed chairman of the Football […]
[…] kilometres. Blighty is going down the pan This quotation is from Aaron Bastani, co-founder of Novara Media. When asked about her greatest achievement Margaret Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour”. The real legacy of Blair is that he not only cemented much of the Thatcherite settlement but, worse, made many believe that doing […]
[PDF file]: […] the BBC, CNN or Al Jazeera to give the tape recordings an airing. (pp. 77-78) Why then was the Rwandan regime so liked in the West? Tony Blair praised Kagame as ‘a visionary’, while Bill Clinton actually described him as ‘one of the greatest leaders of our time’. (p. 389) A blind eye was […]
[PDF file]: […] Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 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. 18 7 happens when you let […]
[PDF file]: […] sold himself to the Parliamentary Labour Party as a man of vision, of farsighted and deep intellect and sought publicly to distance himself from the perception of Blair as a lightweight, focus group-driven politician. So as a ‘strong’ leader, should he follow his own instincts, or trust in the views of small groups of […]
[PDF file]: […] Cato Institute, a free market, libertarian propaganda outfit in Washington, wrote a self-explanatory piece with the title ‘We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs of leaving Europe’.19 Former Blair era Labour Minister Denis MacShane also spotted Mr Bourne’s mea culpa and added one I hadn’t seen by Jeremy Warner in the Daily Telegraph, two days […]
[PDF file]: […] tried to generate public interest in 9/11 is unable to join them. Michael Meacher, a minister in Labour governments led by Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair, died in 2015. He was an early critic of Blair’s decision to invade Iraq 8 and his 2003 Guardian article on 9/11 and the ‘war on […]
