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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tony Blair’
Now Iran is in his sights. Why does anyone still take Tony Blair seriously?
Sep 12th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.
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 […]
Share:
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 […]
Share:
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 […]
Share:
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 […]
Share:
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 […]
Share:
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.
Share:
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 […]
Share:
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 […]
Share:
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?
