[…] off-message On 25 January 2004 The Glasgow Herald reported what were claimed to be the views of senior British intelligence figures in a ‘pre-emptive strike against Tony Blair ahead of the public-cation of the Hutton report’. (2) The Herald said this of MI6: ‘The key points it wants on the record are: Many had […]
[…] against trade unions and having his substantial profits in offshore accounts, Branson has continued to find favour at the highest level, culminating in his knighthood from the Blair government, something that he was not seriously considered for even under the Tories. Bower also has a good account of the bungled attempt by the magnificently […]
Travesty: The trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the corruption of international justice John Laughland London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press; 2007, £14.99 (UK) $24.95 (US), p/b Laughland is an interesting figure, whose writing appears in media across the ideological spectrum, from the conservative right to The Guardian and here, Pluto Press. It is thus […]
[…] the absence of evidence of the Iraqi regime’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, to the distress of the professional diplomats and most of their intelligence services, the Bush- Blair ‘allies’ used dodgy information from defectors, selectively edited what other information they had, or simply made it up as part of the ‘perception management’ of their […]
[…] groups. I have deleted Henderson’s address, phone number and the url of the website concerned. From: (frankie_number_1) Robert Henderson, the self-styled nemesis of Tony and Cherie Blair is a pedophile (sic). Click on the url below to see one of the dozens of indecent photos of children he is circulating. He has also […]
[…] can be learned for the future.’ Not that we’ll ever learn the lessons as the event was ‘off the record’ and closed to the media. Sir Ian Blair on ‘Policing the metropolis: current challenges’. Challenges include ‘…communication and accountability in an increasingly diverse world city…’. This event was also ‘off the record’ and closed […]
[…] a new dominion: moral secular authority that did not segmentalise, over the vast unconquered empire of a zillion minds. All this potential was trashed when Prime Minister Blair, and the political cadre alongside him, turned parts of this country’s state machine into a badly fitting condom for America’sdick. Against this background, the country’s spooks […]
[…] such thing at all.’ But the major media there or here won’t go that far yet. Bits of it may know that the Bush and Blair administrations have run full-scale disinformation campaigns around the war but they apparently cannot acknowledge it. That was Borger on the 4th. On the 7th the wind […]
[…] awarded, without competition, a £32m contract to produce smallpox vaccine. Drayson donated £100,000 to Labour and was one of a small group of businessmen to meet Mr Blair in Downing Street for breakfast in 2001. Britain’s biggest arms deal in history was signed with Saudi Arabia six years into ex-policeman Ray Smith’s campaign to […]
[…] in promoting PFI (Private Finance Initiative) as the solution to the problem of squaring the provision of public services with low levels of taxation. Before 1996, Tony Blair had consistently ridiculed the notion that PFI could be a magic formula that would cut costs and improve services at the same time. The moribund state […]
