[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] fact, as a great wasted talent. This man, we are routinely assured, could have led either the Conservative or the Labour party; but then so could Tony Blair, so this hardly amounts to a great endorsement, even assuming its validity. But what does this biography contribute to the debate? Beckett was never one of […]
[…] cover-up inquiry in the Profumo case. In Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (2006) Simon Jenkins comments that one effect of the Thatcher, Major and Blair years has been the running down of local and regional democracy and the enormous growth in the unelected power of the Treasury. The Conservatives had a […]
[…] listing Mo Mowlam, Chris Smith, Peter Mandelson, Liz Symons, George Robertson and Jonathan Powell as important BAP members appointed to high office under new Prime Minister Tony Blair. After listing a small number of non-Labour BAP candidates in the election the newsletter added: ‘Meanwhile James Naughtie (’89) and Jeremy Paxman (’90) gave them all […]
[…] two and a half years later, with a new identity. Davies’s book raises very important issues at the centre of British operations in Ireland. Just as the Blair government has conceded a fresh inquiry into Bloody Sunday so we must demand an inquiry into official collusion with the loyalist murder squads. Of course, when […]
[…] the Western Sahara, Vanunu etc. Among the authors of these pieces are Anita Roddick and George Galloway MP. I suppose it represents the internationalism of the pre- Blair Labour party, and though its subject matter didn’t ring any bells for me, its appearance is welcome. £12 for 12 issues, cheques made payable to TUCND, […]
[PDF file]: […] The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, stating-the-obvious-at-alltimes tales of Peter Mandelson; the fantastic, optimistic and daytime TV-oriented (and thus immensely popular) narrative of Tony Blair; Jonathan Powell’s treatise on Machiavellianism; and the diarised compendium of sad little stories from Chris Mullin, as he crept away from the political stage after 2005. […]
