[PDF file]: […] exposed when nationalist governments in those countries tried to enforce compensation for eminent domain actions based on tax returns that had been filed under previous regimes. John Blair, in two studies produced while he was an economist for the defunct US Congressional Committee on Transnational Corporations, wrote quite clearly that the US Government has […]
[PDF file]: […] on economic policy, which in turn was required to demonstrate a break with the perceived failure of Labour’s economic record of the past.’ (emphases added) So: the Blair government had to demonstrate to the City its ‘fitness to govern’ and thus acquired ‘permission’ to do so. Why is this necessary? Because of the ‘perceived […]
[PDF file]: […] the world – the Middle East. Here, principally as a result of the actions over a decade ago of ‘Crusader’ President Bush and his sidekick Prime Minister Blair (the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq), the domino effect still in progress (now in Syria), has led to the decimation throughout the region of all […]
[PDF file]: […] declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war on Germany in explicit support of the UK, still comes as a surprise to many. Tony Blair, for example, is reputed to have been puzzled that this was the case. For this see Robert Harris The Ghost, a roman à clef based on […]
[PDF file]: […] and then quickly rushed after the next story, leaving meat still on the carcass, as they did with the Panama Papers. For example, it’s worth looking at Blair frontman Alastair Campbell’s response to the report’s findings concerning the infamous ‘Dodgy Dossier’ of September 2002. On the day Sir John’s report was published, Mr Campbell […]
[PDF file]: […] servants devoid of business experience could think that the private sector could adjust to such ham-handed policy without suffering great damage.’ (p. 162)9 NuLab On the Brown/ Blair years Comfort merely comments: ‘Yet, once again, the resulting high exchange rate inflicted pain on industry, and having given up control over the setting of interest […]
[…] prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there was a natural evolution away from making things to ‘the knowledge economy’. Well, here we are. According to a report […]
[PDF file]: British Counterinsurgency John Newsinger London: PalgraveMacmillan, 2015, p/b, £18.99 This is a new edition of British Counterinsurgency, first published in 2002. Here’s what I wrote about the first edition in Lobster 44. ‘To my knowledge this is the first account of Britain’s post-1945 colonial wars written from a radical left standpoint. By which I don’t […]
[…] maybe not even that – would have prevented the assault. Apparently unable just to say publicly that ‘We have to to support the Americans’, it was Tony Blair who needed to persuade himself that the cause was justified by the ‘intelligence’ on WMDs. The 18th also saw striking quotations in an article in the […]
[PDF file]: […] maybe not even that – would have prevented the assault. Apparently unable just to say publicly that ‘We have to to support the Americans’, it was Tony Blair who needed to persuade himself that the cause was justified by the ‘intelligence’ on WMDs. The 18 March also saw striking quotations in an article in […]
