[…] 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 […]
[…] the old money of the landed aristocracy is still very much part of this picture as is the more recently accumulated wealth of those whose company Tony Blair seems to enjoy. Indeed part of Lansley’s indignation at the growing inequality in Britain is directed at New Labour’s support and encouragement for it and […]
[…] I guess, steal – every last barrel of oil on earth to keep its cars and its air-conditioning units running. Even though everyone – everyone bar Tony Blair, it seems – knows it’s about oil, throughout the summer and autumn the media was saturated with stories about about Saddam Hussein, Iraq, its weapons and […]
[…] AGENTS IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY. RUN FROM FLAT IN EXHIBITION RD, SOUTH KENSINGTON 1952-84 AUTHOR JOHN BINGHAM SPY/THRILLERS WIFE, MADELEINE, INTELL WWII, AUTOBIOGRAPHY BARRED BY D-NOTICE COMMITTEE BLAIR, CHARLES NEIL MOLESWORTH CMG (1962) OBE (48) B 22.10.10 ARMY AND NAVY MI6 (W) 1939 BLACKWATCH EUROPE N AFRICA, SICILY 1941 INSTRUCTOR ARMY STAFF COLL 1943 […]
[…] as to why the USA empowered the KLA to take over Kosovo. How the U.S. Restored Narco-Barons to Power in Afghanistan, 2001 It is clear that the Blair and Bush Administrations did have drugs in mind when in 2001 they developed a strategy for ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their plans focused chiefly on […]
[…] office, came from Jewish businessmen. Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. () Is it really of no […]
[…] 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 Lindsey Jenkins, […]
[…] John Major knew better (with his rushed through privatisation) and New Labour, despite pre-election undertakings to re-nationalise the industry, just went belly-up on the proposal. Remember Tony Blair in opposition saying he wanted to see ‘a publicly accountable, publicly owned railway’? Christian Wolmar is a canny and perceptive writer on the politics and economy […]
[…] on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. “The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks’ involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one […]
[…] to the newspapers to blow the whistle, or even to go to their union or professional association and begin proceedings against their loopy, tyrannical boss. The Thatcher/ Blair duo’s greatest achievement was getting home-ownership in Britain up to around 70%. There’s nothing like having to worry about mortgage payments to reduce the uppityness of […]
