[…] Way as a compromise between free market capitalism and social democracy has little guidance to offer at the international level.’ Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler, ‘The Blair doctrine: advancing the Third Way in the world’ conclude (p. 74): ‘The good intentions of assisting the independence of the East Timorese have been undermined completely […]
[…] and father-in-law of Roger Liddell, the SDP founder member and lifelong pal of Peter Mandelson, who became adviser on Europe and defence at No 10 when Tony Blair became Prime Minister. Liddell, like his wife’s father, gravitated to a Brussels job when Mandelson became an EU commissioner. Lord Thomson, who shared his son-in-law’s strong […]
[…] and Trilateral Commission, Trilateralism (ed. Holly Sklar), which I had assumed was long out of print. Price is £15.95 plus 10% for postage. With Bilderberg guest Tony Blair in office, it is hard to imagine a more important single volume. Meanwhile, back on Planet Weird, is Newspeak, ‘a guide to alternative information’. Like Flatland, […]
[…] history, but the retelling of fragments of imperial history ranging from the Jamaican and Indian rebellions through the Palestine revolt, Mau Mau and Suez to the Bush- Blair alliance of our own time. It’s a very useful short antidote to the well-publicised sweep of Niall Ferguson. The telegenic Harvard academic tells us of his […]
[…] disappear. In ours he is simply being kept down. Robert Henderson is being harassed now because he made a fuss at being harassed in 1997 by Tony Blair and his circle. In effect, he is now being harassed because he is being a bloody nuisance to the powers-that-be. Happily, as a retired Inland Revenue […]
[…] Tussaud’s depiction of the Nativity, December 2004. This was, in media terms, a classic ‘spoiler’. Hypocrisy, however, is rampant: so far as I am aware, Prime Minister Blair, in Palestine at the same time, did not, in public at least, mention the plight of Bethlehem or the Church of the Nativity. Endorsement: possibly because […]
[…] Presswise is a charity which primarily exists to represent the interests of those abused by the Press. Their Web site now contains details of the Robert Henderson/ Blair Scandal. The details can be found by going from the Presswise Home Page (www.presswise.org.uk/) to either ‘Mediation’ and then ‘complaining to regulators’, or via ‘Briefings’ and […]
[…] Justin Raimondo assembles some respectable sources on this at Bliar: didn’t have room to mention in the last issue The Spectator’s Peter Oborne’s splendid attack on Tony Blair for ‘the politicisation of terror’. (If anything, this is even more apposite now than it was then.) There was a Channel 4 TV programme and a […]
[…] words, while all the intelligence on Iraq was wrong, no-one was to blame. And yet, in the midst of this, in a discussion of why Bush and Blair went to war, Ross offers this pregnant sentence: ‘It was well-known that Hussein had allocated all the massively lucrative post-sanctions contracts to French, Chinese, Russian and […]
[…] a selection from the Socialist Workers’ Party’s publications. The subject matter ranges from major pieces about Lockerbie and Colin Wallace, a collection of savage attacks on the Blair crew, through individual scandals (notably his brilliant assault on Jeffrey Archer in the Evening Standard and his account of the destruction of the Daily Mirror) to […]
