[…] 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 […]
[…] cruisers, 43 destroyers, 19 submarines and 20 escort destroyers. 200 ships! How many could Britain build today? None. But hey, we’ve got the Knowledge Economy (© T. Blair) haven’t we? We don’t need to make things. *new* Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move […]
[PDF file]: Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots Dr T P Wilkinson In 1973 a dystopian film, Soylent Green, was released, starring the sincerely gun-toting Charlton Heston.1 The scene was New York City, inhabited by 40 million (only twice as many as Beijing, today), with equatorial temperatures and humidity due to the ‘greenhouse effect’. The story […]
[PDF file]: […] terrorist atrocity. These are serious questions raised by serious people, and the world is watching.’ But Mr Salmond, following the precedents of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, was adamant in his refusal: ‘They’re looking for an inquiry for the responsibility, ultimately, for Lockerbie. That touches on matters of […]
[…] does this only apply to those on the right. A recent autobiographical sketch of Gordon Brown does not suggest that he has grasped that he and Mr Blair also damaged the British economy by pursuing policies benefitting the City of London and damaging manufacturing.27 In defence of paranoia I am grateful to David Ciza […]
[PDF file]: […] New Labour. He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. […]
