[PDF file]: […] reviewed in Lobster 91, has been almost entirely ignored by the major media outside Ireland.47 Saint Tony I didn’t watch the 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of […]
[…] a striking example in relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow […]
[…] a striking example in relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow […]
[…] reviewed in Lobster 91, has been almost entirely ignored by the major media outside Ireland.47 Saint Tony I didn’t watch the 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of […]
[…] reviewed in Lobster 91, has been almost entirely ignored by the major media outside Ireland.47 Saint Tony I didn’t watch the 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of […]
[…] inch to the east’. What was meant by this, and the subsequent complex events around NATO expansion, is 31 In Lobster 88, in this column under subhead Blair and Israel, I wrote ‘In short, the Starmer-led faction of the Labour Party has received significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the […]
[…] reviewed in Lobster 91, has been almost entirely ignored by the major media outside Ireland.29 Saint Tony I didn’t watch the 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of […]
[PDF file]: […] for example 11 Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms set for bonanza’, […]
[…] libel that dead, you can’t complain to Ofcom about the way the media treat them. Saint Tony I didn’t watch the 3 hour TV profile of Tony Blair in mid February. Would it tell me anything new about the man? Probably not. Mr Blair summarised? He and Gordon Brown continued Mrs Thatcher’s destruction of […]
[PDF file]: […] Mrs. Thatcher, which led to the progressive collapse of Labour as a radical, reforming party.(2) Mrs. Thatcher claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster […]
