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Posts Tagged ‘Tony Blair’
The complex legacy of Tony Blair
Jun 2nd, 2012 by Andy Newman.The rise of Owen Jones as a persuasive and articulate exponent of socialist politics is certainly a very welcome development, and the reach of his articles in the Independent gives him a useful vehicle for propagating left-wing ideals, which he does very well. However, I want to take issue with Owen’s recent article about Tony Blair. One of biggest intellectual challenges for […]
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How does one stop over-cosy relationships between politicians and media moguls?
May 31st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Andy Coulson’s arrest for alleged perjury in the Tommy Sheridan trial isn’t just an embarrassment for Cameron. It raises a much wider and more difficult issue: how can a deeply insidious, unhealthy and toxic relationship between politicians and media proprietors – specifically the Tories (Thatcher), New Labour (Blair), the Tories again (Cameron) and Murdoch – […]
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Blair endorsed Sarkozy in campaign video
May 7th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Even for those of us who regard Tony Blair as essentially a Tory in our ranks, it may come as a surprise to see that he actually endorsed Nicolas Sarkozy in a campaign video. Blair’s contribution starts 1:18 into the film.
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Why a Blairite party-within-a-party is a structural obstacle to Labour’s revival
Apr 17th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.In the face of defeat in Bradford, Ed Miliband has recognised that Labour needs “real, deep, genuine change” to reconnect with the 5 million voters lost under New Labour. At the same time, Labour right-wingers like Luke Akehurst express “disgust“ that other Labour members can put aside loyalty to their party to express solidarity not […]
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A Blairite renounces bullying and intimidation
Apr 16th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.The times they are a-changing. A Blairite commentator — über-revisionist blogger and former Labour general secretary, Peter Watt — not only admits that New Labour used to bully people but worries that former perpetrators are about to become the victims. Naturally, he claims that the Brownites were worse (“The real masters though were those who […]
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Blair’s winning formula in perspective
Mar 2nd, 2012 by Jon Lansman.Mehdi Hasan has an excellent piece at the New Statesman today in which, following the Sun’s revelation about meetings between Ed Miliband and Tony Blair, he comments on what Ed should and shouldn’t learn from our former duce. The piece is well worth reading, and includes an excellent riposte to the über-Blairites mantra that he […]
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Bush and Blair finally lose war in Iraq
Oct 24th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.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 […]
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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’, […]
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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 […]
