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In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] involved in facilitating the Al Yamamah trade deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia which led to allegations of massive corruption. The investigation was closed down by the Blair government when the Saudis threatened to end their intelligence relationship with Britain if it was pursued.4 He gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservative […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for editorial and proof-reading help. Going round in circles In the section below subheaded ‘What goes around’, I referred to David Teacher’s massive study of Le Cercle. Teacher informs me that his fifth, final and slightly revised version is now on-line.1 Also known as the Pinay […]

Who let the dogs out?

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[PDF file]: […] by his son Alvaro in Granta in 1991. 12 See however Dominic Wring, The Politics of Marketing the Labour Party, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). 13 After the election, Blair sent Penn a signed photograph declaring: ‘Mark, you were brilliant. Thank you.’ In ‘The Price of Spin’, David Charter and Sam Coates, The Times, 25 April […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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[…] tagging along with the Americans has been disastrous in the last 20 years or so. The real authors of the Manchester Arena and 7/7 bombings are Tony Blair and the rest of the Cabinet who allowed Blair to play the role of George W. Bush’s loyal flunky and so generated this ‘blowback’. But see […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

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[PDF file]: […] Shaxson London: the Bodley Head, 2011, £14.99, p/b ‘Reading Treasure Islands I have realised that injustice is no perversion of the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it and cut its taxes. Cameron didn’t have to assure it of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: reformatted late 2023 The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO whacked JFK? What happened to Dodi and Di in Paris? Did Blair and Campbell tell us all porkies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and how many American troops are based overseas in foreign states? If these questions […]

Apocryphylia

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[PDF file]: Apocryphylia Simon Matthews Letter of the week! W atching Newsnight or any of the other flagship current affairs programmes, it is striking how little attention is being paid to the possibility of Scottish independence. Coverage of day-to-day politics remains focussed on speculation about the outcome of the 2015 General Election, with a basic assumption that […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the or 4 5 or 6 […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: Bad Labour Keir Starmer: The Biography Tom Baldwin London: William Collins, 2024, £25, h/b John Newsinger At the recent election Labour only secured 33.7% of votes nationally, and half the number of people voted for Keir Starmer in his own constituency as they did in 2019.1 Despite this, he became Prime Minister with a 174 […]