[…] brought out that ‘special edition’ of Marxism Today, which distanced (well tried to involve, really) his little group from all those gushing interviews he did with Tony Blair. He always seemed very token left to me, but very early with it in terms of the New Labour shtick, with appearances at places like the […]
[…] has omitted too much, too obviously. Notes 1 Co-author of CIA and the Labour Movement (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1977) and pioneer in the exposure of IRD’s role in post-war politics. 2 He is currently writing a splendid column in Tribune in which his rhetorical powers are regularly trained on Tony Blair et al to great effect.
[…] idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion of the U.S. mall culture. The U.S. militia ‘right’ certainly would recognize the whole process of Tony Blair abandoning British self-interest to dimly understood international investment banking conspirators. I wonder, however, if the militias or their ‘left’ counterparts really see the rather old assumptions […]
[…] up by BBC news. Louisa Garrett was seen on TV claiming that she ‘doesn’t really know’ who she voted for, but that she had ‘voted for Tony Blair and then put him to bed’. In actual fact, she had signed away her vote to the brother of a local Conservative party worker. This was […]
[…] the island’s productive resources be abandoned. I think Labour’s leaders have got it completely wrong and however they think of themselves, history will judge that the Brown- Blair faction was merely the ultimate triumph of the ideology of the City over the rest of us; and, let us hope, the last dribble of Thatcherism […]
[…] a ‘parliamentary fellow’). There is also a section (pp. 336-7) on his attendance at the 1995 Bilderberg conference. Of this he writes: ‘I am sent by the Blair office as none of the front-line Labour spokesmen can go’. Oddly or not Bilderberg is not in the index. Generalissimo Somehow it was terribly […]
[…] Armani-clad ‘blue skies thinking’ ex-head of the BBC renowned for his unfathomable managerial gobbledygook (regularly reproduced in the pages of Private Eye). His ennoblement by the Revd. Blair is widely seen as a result of his friendship with Peter Mandelson, a former colleague at London Weekend Television.Here’s a bit of Birt biog that may […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] as for Britain? Very little mention is made of the UK having any role of influence on either US or Israeli-US policy. The authors positively discount Tony Blair playing any significant part one way or the other in either Middle East events or the Iraqi war. They do state, though, that Israel gets access […]
[…] 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 […]
