Alastair Campbell vs Tony Blair
The section at 18 mins about Iraq-related dreams is fascinating. They both seem rather haunted, in radically different ways:
The new new left meets the old new left
This is a fascinating exchange between Owen Jones and Alastair Campbell, bringing to life many of the themes I’ve been preoccupied with in the last few months. I agree with Owen’s claim that Campbell’s world view is in crisis. The promise of the modernisers rested on a basic electoral proposition: triangulation […]
‘Disruption’ as the last refuge of the Third Way
A couple of months ago, The New Statesman carried an interview with Tony Blair for the first time in a long time. Leaving aside how haunted the man looked in the portrait accompanying it, what stood out to me about it was how readily he had incorporated techno-speak into the language of the […]
Ever wondered about how Tony Blair interprets his own drift towards right-wing politics?
He was kind enough to provide an answer in this recent talk: In some cases, this will mean a certain convergence of thinking with the centre-right. Relax. It happens the world over and where it doesn’t – see the polarisation of American politics today – a country is the poorer […]
Nigel Farage vs. Tony Blair
Oh Tony, if only you’d used your powers for good rather than for evil.
Tony Blair: ‘I say lies’
Wonderful work by Cassetteboy: Alas! It’s still online here –> http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2014/apr/25/tony-blair-cassetteboy-video-mashup-bloomberg-speech
England’s riots shouldn’t be blamed on ‘moral decline’, says Tony Blair | UK news | The Observer
England’s riots shouldn’t be blamed on ‘moral decline’, says Tony Blair | UK news | The Observer. Rather interesting. This is without doubt the most sensible thing I have ever heard this man say. My only point of contention is the apparent contradiction inherent in what he’s saying: he talks about […]
