[…] would carry it out isn’t specified. Is it just a return to the consensus politics typical of the three decades after 1945? Does he want fewer Clinton- Blair ‘modernisers’ and a more matter-a-fact class of politicians? Does the desire for ‘pragmatism’ mean telling people they can’t have everything? What modifications would he make to […]
[…] 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.15 Burnham and the Israel lobby If, like me, you had […]
[PDF file]: […] government scientist who leaked details about the falsification of intelligence relating to Iraqi WMD, but whose death ended up being used instead as a vehicle for the Blair government to attack the BBC, who had reported the leak. Among the documents posted on the inquiry’s website was a bizarre and cryptic document concerning child […]
Contents Lobster 58 War on Terror Inc. Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear Solomon Hughes London: Verso, 2007, £16.99 When the historians of the future come to write the story of the last years of the 20th century in the UK and the USA, one of the bits they will have the most trouble […]
[PDF file]: […] 2007, UK real GDP per hour grew faster than France, Germany and even the United States. (pp. 8/9) What, things were better under John Major and Tony Blair than during the Thatcher years? You might think this would give our authors pause, but it doesn’t. It all seemed very different at the turn of […]
[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]: […] Luciana Berger, Mike Gapes, Wes Streeting, Frank Field, Joan Ryan, Stella Creasy and John Mann; former Labour Party General Secretary Lord Triesman; New Labour figures including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their respective funding organisers, Lords Levy and Mendelsohn; as well as fellow peers Mandelson, Hain, Reid, Blunkett, Hughes, Cunningham and Winston. In July […]
[…] 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]: […] in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) were the dilapidated remains of New Labour, the construct that had effected some positive change in its 13 years under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but which had steadily lost members and electoral support before its 2010 defeat.4 Williamson had campaigned to make Ed Miliband leader and for […]
[…] 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 […]
