Blair Anthony Seldon London: Free Press (Simon & Shuster), 2004, h/b, £20 What a tome! At 755 pages, with 40 chapters and 3000 plus footnotes, the book is neatly divided into chapters on either specific historical periods or significant individuals. The picture that emerges of Blair is striking in its variance from much of […]
[…] were again welcome in Fiji. Later that year he became the first South Pacific head of state to get a full-scale red-carpet welcome at the White House. Reagan praised his “political courage” in allowing nuclear warships into Fiji. Secretary of State Shultz told him: “Your decision to restore access to United States naval vessels […]
[…] democratic governments’ such as Libya, or Burma for example. (19) In 1986, having launched from a British airfield his bomber raid on Colonel Gadhafi’s family, President Reagan described the Libyan despot as a ‘unique threat to free peoples’, a ‘rogue regime that advances its goals through the murder and maiming of innocent civilians’. […]
[…] in the Iran-Contra affair. Other son Dean, whose journalistic career at The Daily Telegraph prospered mightily under Conrad Black after serving as a defence assistant in the Reagan Administration, wrote a biography of David Trimble, and is now research director of the Policy Exchange. In that capacity Godson fronted its 2007 publication of The […]
[…] the White House switchboard.’ It’s luminaries include former President George Bush (Carlyle’s senior adviser on Asia), Frank Carlucci (former CIA deputy director and Defense Secretary in the Reagan era and now Carlyle emeritus Chairman), James Baker III (Bush’s Secretary of State and senior Carlyle counsellor) and John Major, (the former British Prime Minister and […]
[…] if he did. Hinckley is hinky At < http://www.noveltynet.org/content/paranormal/www.parascope.com/mx/articles/hinckley.htm > there is a series of still photographs taken at the time of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan with an analysis which claims that the photographs prove that John Hinckley didn’t do the shooting. I always thought there was something fishy about that shooting: […]
[…] and, failing that, cause him as much embarrassment as possible. But where was E-P and the Telegraph when we really needed them, during the scandalous years of Reagan and Bush, eh? What has Clinton done that could possibly be compared with, for example, the Savings and Loan rip-off, the biggest financial scandal in US […]
[…] economic advice they were getting? Nothing, in effect. I always thought Mrs Thatcher was a nitwit and the tales of her great intellect were coming from those around her who were unwilling or unable to acknowledge that she was the dummy she appeared to be. (Something similar has happened with Reagan and Bush junior.) RR
[…] the secret societies was visible in any expression of discontent. In 1819 Metternich of Austria proposed an international alliance against secret societies in terms similar to the Reagan administration’s rhetoric against ‘international terror.’ In the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848 Disraeli (in his Life of Lord George Bentick) made it clear that he […]
[…] Sarah Tisdall going to jail after she leaked confidential documents to The Guardian. Many at the time – the height of the renewed Cold War under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – thought the editor of The Guardian would resign, a course of action over failure in civic duty his newspaper’s leading articles have […]
