[…] It is stoic, it is Roman, it is Western. There is also a pragmatism about which politicians to back and which to let go so that Blair and the ex-Maoist Barroso are in, and the traditionalist Gaullist Chirac is out. This is where we need more research. What are the neo-conservatives doing in […]
Ah, the wonderful private sector In ‘ Blair anti-corruption plan weakened by British firms’ in The Independent 2 September 2002, Geoffrey Lean reported: ‘Britain has the world’s most corrupt companies, and some of the weakest legislation among industrialised countries for dealing with them….Half of the 70 companies identified by the World Bank as so […]
[…] always been defined in an Anglo-American context.’ Gordon Brown used to tell interviewers that he spent his holidays in the library at Harvard University. In 1986 Tony Blair went on one of those US-sponsored trips to America that are available for promising MPs and came back a supporter of the nuclear deterent. In 1993 […]
[…] also happens to be a defence of Andrew Gilligan’s hurried, exaggerated, but for all that essentially true report on BBC’s ‘Today’ of the ‘sexing up’ of the Blair dossier. Don’t let pompous news folk at, say, the Columbia School of Journalism hear this, but the surprising corollary of Rule C is that the biggest […]
Tony Blair might be considered guilty on two of the counts for which Hitler’s Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop was executed at Nuremberg, ‘namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for […]
[…] might be reasonably argued(1) that New Labour has brought the United Kingdom one third of the way towards a ‘tyranny’ if we look closely at what the Blair Government has actually done since 2001 and then measure it against Wolf’s ten steps to dictatorship.(2) In the strange amalgam of New Labour and state that […]
Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) […]
[…] inconvenient truth that suffering from American mistakes and incompetence was always the price that the UK would pay if it accepted American leadership in the way that Blair did. The establishment narrative implied that, if the Americans had behaved differently and followed the British counter-insurgency approach, then all would have been well. This is […]
[…] King saying that: ‘splendid chaps doing a wonderful job.’ Tom King, as they say, isn’t the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer. This may explain why Mr Blair left him in the job when Labour won the election in 1997. The Labour Party’s passivity in face of the secret state is a more complex […]
[…] bad taste, it has set aside $20m for Washington’s Victory in Iraq celebration.() Prime Minister Blair’s legacy By the time the Victory Party takes place, Prime Minister Blair will be out of office. Nevertheless, he will be one of the guests. The severed limbs of others have earned him his place at Washington’s top […]
