[…] for him to have a sideways move, working for one of the Met’s suppliers. Interestingly, just like the policeman who fatally smashed the skull of London teacher Blair Peach at a demonstration, Harold Chalenor had previously belonged to the military’s blood-and-guts brigade, earning the sobriquet of ‘Tankie’ Chalenor. Donovan Pedelty also fails to deal […]
[…] that it is the press who threaten democracy in confusing the public and the private, becomes ironic when one considers that the sole consistency of the current Blair administration lies in the attempt to abolish this distinction. Notes Claghorn v. Edsaco Ltd., Northern District, 98-3039 Regina v The Secretary of State for the Home […]
[…] measures taken to combat terrorism comply with all their obligations under international law.’ But then immediately the war on terror ideologues scream ‘special circumstances’; for example Tony Blair on 5 August 2005: ‘Let no-one be in any doubt. The rules of the game are changing.’ In practice this means an erosion of our civil […]
[…] the Zinoviev letter. When the Zinoviev report appeared the major media forgot – or chose to ignore – that it wasn’t the first time since Prime Minister Blair took office that the Zinoviev story had appeared. In August 1997, just after Labour won the General Election, MI6 leaked material about Zinoviev to a couple […]
[…] Ahmed was not under surveillance, a departure from their normal policy of neither confirm nor deny with regard to such claims. (24) In a written answer Tony Blair stated that government policy remains that there be no tapping of telephones of members of the Houses of Commons and Lords, and with this exception it […]
[…] in central Asia. We are dependent on information given to us by the United States’ CIA and NSA.’ The British overseas lobby in Whitehall – like Tony Blair – still dreams of being a ‘world player’. But it doesn’t have the tax resources to match the UK’s (private) overseas investments. Which is essentially why […]
[…] this time to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy […]
[…] was shown by the Daily Telegraph’s report on 7 April: headlined ‘Africa becomes vital front in war on terror’, the story by the Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent David Blair told us that ‘Meanwhile, a belt of countries in the Horn of Africa and on the southern fringe of the Sahara could, say US officials, become […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] not ‘feed into the intelligence process’. But how can they not? How could they not in the case of the Iraq war? Everybody and their cousin knew Blair had agreed to support a US attack; and supporting the Americans is the political consideration which is always in the intelligence process. The authors tell us: […]
