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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tony Blair’
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
Royal Wedding Special No 3: The conclusion… of England’s bourgeois revolution
May 4th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.It’s official, David Starkey says so: the old aristocracy, the one based on land and genealogy, is dead. The entitlement of the new ruling class to be gathered in Westminster Abbey last Friday is based on money alone. A public school education certainly helps, but lots of money will do, however you acquired it. Posh [...]
What should the left say about crime?
Apr 13th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Being a victim of crime is no fun. My family’s house was burgled repeatedly when I was growing up. On one occasion – when I was 15 – it happened in the early hours when we were all in bed. I remember hearing the clunking noises downstairs and presuming (with some irritation) that my twin [...]
Why Labour is the Left’s only hope
Mar 2nd, 2011 by Owen Jones.It’s a debate that has raged on the left since 1900, when an alliance of trade unions and left-wing groups decided that working people needed a political voice and set up the Labour Representation Committee. Is Labour the left’s only hope, or is it a thoroughly reactionary obstacle on the glorious onwards march to socialism? [...]
Mandelson (and Blair) represent Labour’s past and Labour’s defeat
Feb 26th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Peter Mandelson says he is loyal to Ed Miliband; he has a funny way of showing it. The extracts from the new chapter of the paperback edition of his book, The Third Man, published on Labour Uncut and Labour List, provide much ammunition for the Tories. Labour’s leadership election rules, for example, Mandelson claims gave a [...]
Blair, Arab despots, and the ethical dimension of Britain’s foreign policy
Feb 21st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.It’s too easy to sneer at those photos of Blair and Gaddafi. It was far better to shake the hand of a despot than to bomb thousands of his country’s innocent inhabitants (though the credit for the rapprochement between Britain and Libya in the wake of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 probably belongs [...]
Labour must renounce its ugly Blairite legacy if it wants to win
Feb 2nd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Monday was a day of shame, the day they denationalised the NHS. Yet at the second reading of the Bill in the House of Commons the main line of defence of the increasingly isolated Andrew Lansley, who is clearly out of his depth, was that the Tories are only carrying on where Blair left off and [...]
