[…] 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 As well as politics, of course, there is the simple fact that as we get older we find it increasingly difficult to change our minds when […]
[PDF file]: […] the real democratic practice of international law and a new Zeitgeist united. Addendum The recently sacked (likely a neocon manoeuvre) ex-director of national intelligence, retired Admiral Dennis Blair, told Congress in February last year, that the world-wide economic crisis is the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States, trumping even […]
[PDF file]: […] New York as a result flowed via corporate tax and asset and bond purchases to governments (so helping to finance the expansion of the welfare state under Blair and Brown) and, via banks, building societies and finance companies, both to businesses and to millions of private citizens. Lending expanded, personal and corporate borrowing mushroomed. […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Kremlin. Steele emphasises the Putin regime’s commitment to supporting authoritarianism and encouraging division throughout the West. As for his own political trajectory, he had supported Blair and New Labour, voting for them in 1997 and 2001, but was opposed to the Iraq War. Indeed, the invasion was one of the factors that […]
[PDF file]: […] we could isolate Northern Rock’s problems and partly because, ever since the 1970s, the Labour Party had been losing elections on the question of economic competence. Tony Blair and I had spent twenty years building New Labour on the foundation of market competition, private enterprise, and economic stability as the the path to Adam […]
[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. 14 15 John Hoskyns, Just In Time: inside the Thatcher revolution (London: Aurum, 2000) p. 107. He records […]
[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. 14 15 John Hoskyns, Just In Time: inside the Thatcher revolution (London: Aurum, 2000) p. 107. He records […]
[PDF file]: […] the overturning of the murder convictions of the Birmingham Six in 1991. More recently, there have been the revelations that a Metropolitan police officer most probably killed Blair Peach at Southall in 1979, and South Yorkshire Police conspired to blame Liverpool fans for their deaths at Hillsborough in 1989 in order to deflect attention […]
[PDF file]: […] change in their relationship to the US and the global market.10 This actuality was disguised, as it had been during the See for example Scott Newton, ‘ Blair and Gladstone’, Lobster 42 (2001/2), or . 7 8 Gallagher and Robinson (see note 4) p. 13. 9 Cain and Hopkins (see note 3) pp. 285-6. […]
[PDF file]: […] decisive freeing up of market competition in Britain starting in the 1980s. The success was dramatic and to its credit, ‘New Labour’ under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown embraced the new freedoms, tempering their party’s historical Fabian socialist ethos with a fresh emphasis on opportunity. Britain has welcomed foreign investment and […]
