[…] at a dead-end: believe it or don’t. Assertion plus documentation opens doors, empowers. For example, in a really splendid and splenetic assault on Our Great Leader (T. Blair) he quotes extensively from the material on the British American Project for the Future Generation and TUCETU in Lobster 33. But the source is not given. […]
[…] Democrats willing to take before they conclude that attack may be the only form of defence? Notes I haven’t read the party’s history before 1960 and don’t know. A great deal of this critique of the Democrats – fear of the spooks and the media, for example – applied to the pre- Blair Labour Party.
[…] Alan Petty (aka author ‘Alan Judd’) an ex-MI6 officer and member of MI6’s secretariat – in effect, the Chief’s private office – is a friend of Tony Blair. ‘Judd’ was briefly the motoring correspondent of the Spectator. In one of his early columns, he joked that in his previous occupation he’d had to changes […]
[…] and when she went down, so did they. (For a while they seemed to genuinely believe that Mrs Thatcher was a libertarian; a bit like believing that Blair and Brown are socialists. ) The book’s title is slightly misleading: the sociology takes up only a small section at the end. This is basically a […]
[…] 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.
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
