Buried in all the reporting about Gadaffi’s death was a much more significant piece of news about the Middle East. Obama announced late on Friday night – with a timing very likely connected to the news from Libya – that all US troops will be withdrawan from Iraq in 2 months time. This is a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tony Blair’
Tony Blair: PR man for Kazakhstan
Oct 24th, 2011 by David Osler.Nursultan Nazarbayev is clearly an extremely popular guy. Why, only last April, he secured 95% of the votes in Kazakhstan’s presidential elections. And just to underline how much his people love him, the name of the party which holds every single seat in the country’s parliament loosely translates as ‘Ray of Light of the Fatherland’, [...]
Palestine Government may seek sacking of Tony Blair
Oct 3rd, 2011 by Newsdesk.The Palestinian Government will soon consider whether it should ask the International Quartet Committee for peace in the Middle East to fire its envoy Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain, a well-informed Palestinian source said on Sunday. A senior well-informed Palestinian source, speaking to Xinhua on condition of anonymity, said that several Palestinian [...]
Now Iran is in his sights. Why does anyone still take Tony Blair seriously?
Sep 12th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.It simply beggars belief that there are some in the British media who still take Tony Blair even vaguely seriously. On Friday, we were treated to two ‘exclusives’ featuring Blair on the front pages of The Times and the the Daily Mirror. All this in the same week that we learned that Blair had agreed [...]
Which Minister authorised UK rendition?
Sep 11th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.There are two revelations in the latest batch of CIA documents found abandoned in Tripoli which are truly shocking. One is that the British Government didn’t just tamely comply with the US rendition programme, but actively ran its own rendition operations organised by MI6. Second is the repeated assertion by senior officials in Whitehall that [...]
The Blairites are morally bankrupt
Sep 7th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.The likes of Alistair Darling are keen to step-up to the plate and sling mud over our record in government but rather less willing to discuss a real issue, like our record on conducting and assisting torture and ‘rendition flights’. This shows the complete moral bankruptcy of the politics of Blairism in this Party. It [...]
The questions on Libya Tony Blair needs to answer
Sep 6th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair and former Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw and David Miliband, now face some extremely tough questions as to how much they knew about the extraordinary rendition of prisoners to Libya where they were tortured. The discovery of some extraordinary archives in the ruins of the Ministry of Information in Tripoli by [...]
Cameron and Blair both muddle-headed on cause of riots
Aug 23rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Well, well, well. Who said “there are deep problems in our society that have been growing for a long time: a decline in responsibility, a rise in selfishness, a growing sense that individual rights come before anything else”? Cameron. And where does he think the selfishness and fixation on individualism came from, if not from [...]
Winning back Labour’s lost millions
Jul 19th, 2011 by Jon Trickett.Labour’s renewal must look to the future. Rebuilding our covenant with the British people will require some tough decisions and an up-front acceptance of the things we got wrong. The Party stands at a cross roads. We reject the turning towards 1980’s style ultra-leftism. Equally we should refuse the call from a voluble minority of backseat drivers [...]
Hey Ed, beware false friends offering advice!
Jun 27th, 2011 by Fred Kite.Just what does young Ed Miliband think he is doing? It was always going to be a tough fight, but his reaction – and the reaction of his close advisers to his fairly dismal poll ratings has been to whip the white flag further up the pole. Bookmarks Hide Sites
