[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Gordon Brown (2004) which I skimmed through recently. If you wonder why Labour Party members chose Corbyn, this account of Brown’s careerism, strange personality and feuds with Blair shows the kind of thing they were reacting against. 2 Centrally, NuLab and the New Democrats abandoned the urban working class because they presented problems which […]
[…] We remain addicted to huge loans and state support, while our leaders pretend that money grows on trees. It’s led to an economic calamity’.16 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] virtual beginner like me as some of the more complex JFK forensic analyses. Friends of the Friends The emasculation of the Labour Party is generally attributed to Blair and Brown in the 1990s; but it began much earlier, with the 1988/9 policy review which started the process of accommodating the City and the Americans. […]
[PDF file]: […] involved in facilitating the Al Yamamah trade deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia which led to allegations of massive corruption. The investigation was closed down by the Blair government when the Saudis threatened to end their intelligence relationship with Britain if it was pursued.4 He gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservative […]
