[…] a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how […]
[…] 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]: Team mercenary GB Part 2 – This is the modern world Nick Must The 21st century UK PMC In my first article on the British influence on the world of Private Military Contractors (PMCs),1 I covered the period from the 1960s to the beginning of the new millennium. I showed that there was a distinct […]
[PDF file]: The Black Door Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac London: William Collins, £30 T his new book by two respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] tagging along with the Americans has been disastrous in the last 20 years or so. The real authors of the Manchester Arena and 7/7 bombings are Tony Blair and the rest of the Cabinet who allowed Blair to play the role of George W. Bush’s loyal flunky and so generated this ‘blowback’. But see […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] bushes in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 or 29 7 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 7 an economic calamity’.29 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]
