Tweet Dan Hodges is not the most reliable of soothsayers. On the eve of the announcement of Ed Miliband’s victory, the journalist and self-described “Blairite cuckoo” infamously proclaimed that “David Miliband has won.” But Hodges, who now pops up whenever Newsnight or Sky News require a useful idiot to attack the leadership qualities of Miliband [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tony Blair’
Iraq ten years on: lessons still not learnt
Jun 14th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet The facts, no longer seriously in dispute, are stark. The US went to war over Iraq because of oil and to assure themselves of a platform for control of the Middle East region, as set out in the Project for the New American Century document published for the Bush election team in September 2000. As [...]
The Thatcherite agenda lives on more for Blair than for Britain
Apr 16th, 2013 by Bryan Gould.Tweet The poll conducted by You-Gov Cambridge and published this week in The Guardian shows that the British are more ready than the Americans, French and Germans to affirm their continued belief in the values of fairness, compassion, and concern for others, and to look to their government to act in line with those values. [...]
An extended silence from Mr. Blair would now be welcome
Apr 14th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet Tony Blair obviously cannot get over being ousted from the premiership and ejected from British public life. First he attacks his successor Gordon Brown and boasts immodestly that he would have done better at the 2010 election (a very open question, though Labour would certainly have done better in 2010 with neither of them). [...]
Was Blair the ideological child of Thatcher?
Apr 11th, 2013 by Andy Newman.Tweet To steal a joke from the late John Sullivan, Tony Blair’s tribute to Baroness Thatcher sounds like a eulogy to John the Baptist from Jesus. However, while it may be difficult for some on the left to accept, particularly those of us who ten years ago were fulminating against the crime of Blair’s war on [...]
10 years on from Iraq: a violent country and a secretive state
Mar 18th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Tweet At the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, it is said that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. But did the US win the war? At a cost of £1.1 trillion and a death toll of 4,500 US troops, 32,000 wounded and with [...]
Tony Blair worth up to £60m, with complex web of companies “to hide just how much money he makes”
Jan 14th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Tweet The Sunday Telegraph yesterday reported that Tony Blair “will enter the rich-lists for the first time this year with a fortune of somewhere between £35 million and £60 million” and, according to accountants, he also has “a complex web of companies, designed… to hide just how much money he makes and from where his money comes.” [...]
On Jimmy Savile, Tony Blair, and turning a blind eye to serious crimes
Oct 15th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet The terrible thing about Jimmy Savile’s serious crimes involving young girls is how many people in senior and influential positions knew about his behaviour and chose to do nothing about it, to turn a blind eye. People who knew him at Radio Luxembourg and Mecca as early as the 1960s, Detective Inspector John Lindsay’s [...]
The Wilderness Years
Oct 13th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Tweet If you haven’t seen The Wilderness Years, a BBC series of four hour-long documentaries broadcast in 1995, it’s well worth watching – and you can by following the links below. Documenting the period of Labour’s history from losing the 1979 election to the election of Blair as Labour’s Leader, it relies entirely on archive [...]
Forget “hard-working families” – we need to talk about class
Aug 11th, 2012 by Kieran Dodds.Tweet “There is only one hope for mankind – and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it – and that is the Labour Party.” The words of Aneurin Bevan – Labour hero, British hero – are worth reminding ourselves of from time to time. They remind [...]
