[PDF file]: […] of Labour MPs came to see him to try to get it stopped or modified. One of them was the then rising star of the back-benches, Tony Blair. This was 1988. Gould went on to stand against John Smith for the leadership of the party in 1992 and lost heavily. New Labour – at […]
[PDF file]: […] Secretary William Hague on the day the last British troops left Iraq: it was reported at the same time that Sir John – who helped Prime Minister Blair make the case for the illegal invasion of Iraq – had taken a top job with an oil firm in the country. Adept SIS PR campaign […]
[PDF file]: […] to act accordingly; (2) the US then was run by people who regarded the UK as an essential ally in the nuclear stand-off with the Soviet Union. Blair scrapped the UK’s remaining stockpile of freefall nuclear bombs in 1998 as they had been built 20+ years earlier and, by the ‘90s, aircraft delivered bombs […]
[PDF file]: […] Thinking His initial submission can be found at . 11 7 fi subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.11 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]
[PDF file]: […] on our streets.’ There was no irony in this statement, no humility, no cognitive spark in this scholastic boilerplate. Quite the contrary: after the Neanderthal neo-papist Mr Blair, returning from abroad, Mr Cameron has emerged as the incarnation of Britain’s bullying class, to perform his role as mouthpiece for those who fear most that […]
[PDF file]: […] elected parliamentarians featured neophyte Labour MP 1 2 3 Luciana Berger, the ex-National Union of Students (NUS) officer who allegedly was romantically close to one of the Blair offspring as well as former New Labour MP Sion Simon, it failed to mention that her previous job had been as director of Labour Friends of […]
[PDF file]: […] this is the man who not only initiated Britain’s nuclear weapons programme but also kept it secret from both Parliament and his own Cabinet, something that even Blair would have thought twice about! What of the ‘secret state’? By the time Attlee took office, the bad old days of the ‘Zinoviev Letter’ had been […]
[PDF file]: […] New York as a result flowed via corporate tax and asset and bond purchases to governments (so helping to finance the expansion of the welfare state under Blair and Brown) and, via banks, building societies and finance companies, both to businesses and to millions of private citizens. Lending expanded, personal and corporate borrowing mushroomed. […]
[PDF file]: […] the overturning of the murder convictions of the Birmingham Six in 1991. More recently, there have been the revelations that a Metropolitan police officer most probably killed Blair Peach at Southall in 1979, and South Yorkshire Police conspired to blame Liverpool fans for their deaths at Hillsborough in 1989 in order to deflect attention […]
[PDF file]: Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics Peter Geoghegan London: Head of Zeus, 2020, £8.99 Colin Challen Ever since the birth of ‘democracy’ it has been for sale. Influence pedlars, bribery, blackmail, fraud, honours touting – these are all as common as the ballot box. A whole library has been written about these less […]
