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20 July 2006
Sea of sleaze rises around Blair
DESPITE HIS bravura performance at the G8, Tony Blair may not be able to deliver his promise to see all the other leaders at next year's summit...
1 June 2006
Environment: RECENTLY, PRIME minister Tony Blair told CBI dinner guests that he backed building a new generation of nuclear power stations, saying nuclear power was "back on the agenda with a vengeance"...
11 May 2006
Local elections: A death blow for Blair?
THE 2006 council elections in England have increased the pressure on Tony Blair and New Labour. The results show a continuing and increasing disaffection with the establishment parties. Socialist Party candidates scored some important...
23 March 2006
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19 January 2006
Crime and anti-social behaviour
New Labour's policies can't end ...: TONY BLAIR'S well-publicised ideas on "respect" in the community have pushed his views on crime and anti-social behaviour onto the political agenda again...
15 December 2005
Montreal conference - Little change on climate change
TONY BLAIR hailed the recent United Nations Montreal conference on climate change as a "vital next step in tackling climate." Green pressure group, Friends of the Earth said it was an "histori...
17 November 2005
Selection and 'free market' threaten our schools
Education White Paper: TONY BLAIR'S first defeat in parliament over the Terrorism Bill has made many parents, school students, teachers and education workers more confident that they can defeat Labour's latest education White Paper...
10 November 2005
Blair staggers on... but 'PFI' Brown is no alternative
The following article was printed before Blair's humiliating defeat in the vote to detain terrorist suspects for 90 days...
29 September 2005
BLAIR IS going - and should go - but his replacement as prime minister by Gordon Brown, whether in the immediate or medium future, will bring no relief to working-class people in this country...
6 May 2005
New Labour celebrations after its election win were muted and short-lived...
27 November 2004
Western hypocrisy on Afghanistan
"NINETY PERCENT of all heroin sold in Britain originates from Afghanistan. Stopping that trade is directly in our interests."...
2 October 2004
Build The Socialist Alternative: MORE OUT of touch and more inflexible than Margaret Thatcher. That's the verdict of the majority of people in this country about Tony Blair...
18 September 2004
TUC Delegates Give Thumbs Down To Blair
HAVING ANNOUNCED the sacking of over 100,000 civil servants in the public sector, Tony Blair went to the TUC Congress to try and persuade delegates that he had not lost touch with the concerns of hard-working families...
24 July 2004
Blair: Clinging On To The Wreckage
Editorial: BLAIR 'CELEBRATED' ten years at the top of New Labour a bruised and battered man. The Butler report into intelligence surrounding WMD and the war in Iraq let him off the hook yet again - blaming "collective responsibility".
19 June 2004
Elections 2004: : A "GOOD kicking", a "bloody nose", a "slap in the face" - all the media descriptions of New Labour's disastrous election results had some reference to being beaten up. ...
29 May 2004
£125,000,000 a month. That's how much the government says it is spending on the Iraq conflict. Several defence experts argue that the real figure is £250 million...
8 May 2004
European Union Constitution - What's It All About?
- Why has Tony Blair promised a referendum on the constitution?
'What part of "no" don't you understand?' was the answer that Blair's official spokesman, Tom Kelly, gave a month ago when asked whether there would be a national referendum on the European constitution.
24 April 2004
Bush And Blair's Lies About Handover
AFTER THEIR meeting over the weekend of 17-18 April, Bush and Blair declared their unwavering commitment to the transfer of power to Iraqis by 30 June. But this is a lie...
31 January 2004
Where Are Iraq's Weapons Of Mass Destruction?
What Hutton didn't ask: "I don't think they existed," Kay said. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last Gulf War [1991] and I don't think there was a large-scale production programme in the 90s."...
24 January 2004
Top-Up Fees And Blair's Future In The Balance
"I WILL survive" said Blair on a Newsnight special about top-up fees (19 January). But will he?...
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