Tony Blair

A curious sensation

September 30, 2011
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Let us examine the record: unprecedented electoral success for his party; massive approval ratings; vast donations to the party. An inspired political strategy that appeared to marry conflicting goals. A media management strategy that still defines the “media narrative” today for his opposition. There can be no doubt whatsoever that despite whatever else can be [...]

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Making a Drachma Out of a Crisis.

September 5, 2011
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I idly wondered, in the early hours of this morning, where had the original advertising slogan come from? Susie Henry, who founded the Waldron, Allen, Henry & Thompson advertising agency for Legal and General, if you are interested. You might be playing Trivial Pursuits one day. Whilst I was trolling about in these waters, I [...]

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“The Journey”

July 12, 2011
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Tony Blair’s book  “The Journey” was published last year.  Don’t say you’ve forgotten. There was quite a furore around his book signing appointments when two were cancelled because Mr Blair was feart of anti-war protestors.  We, as taxpayers, also paid for his police protection when he did attend signings and we still pay for his [...]

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Hutton revisited

July 10, 2011
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With the NOTW issue to the fore, the old “Independent Judicial Inquiry” bandwagon has been set rolling once again. I heard Greg Dyke on the radio this week, and he was reminiscing about his experience in the wake of the Hutton Inquiry. I thought it might be worth revisiting that spectacularly farcical process. In 2002 [...]

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Hacked-off Hackers.

June 25, 2011
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Back in the dark ages, well, 40 years ago, there was a ‘private club’ in the Walworth Road known as the Crusaders. It was a long dark room, lined with mirrors; mirrored balls sparkled overhead, tables stretched the length of the room on either side with banquette seating against the wall and chairs on the [...]

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Thought crimes

February 27, 2011
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Tony Blair’s legacy and what being progressive and demanding equality for all leads to. Countryside Restoration Trust chairman and columnist Robin Page said at a rally against the Government’s anti-hunting laws in Gloucestershire in 2002: “If you are a black vegetarian Muslim asylum-seeking one-legged lesbian lorry driver, I want the same rights as you.” Page [...]

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus – Dictator Then, Dictator Now

January 17, 2011

On Saturday Ed Miliband gave a speech at a conference organised by the Fabian Society, by doing so he is endorsing an organisation that is the closest I can equate to an unethical, amoral resident evil still in our midst from a period of of our history that we should not be proud of, let [...]

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