Results from recent regional and local elections should bring a few cheers to those, like me, who have long distrusted New Labour. While the letters in Tony Blair nearly form an anagram for Tory Plan B (if we replace i with p), David Cameron certainly follows in the deceptive footsteps of our Tone, as the
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The Misery Industry
In the run-up to New labour’s historic 1997 electoral victory, thespian extraordinaire Tony Blair launched his rallying soundbite “education, education, education“. Any brief exposure to modern teaching techniques as they have continued to evolve since would reveal the necessity to revise that slogan to “edutainment, edutainment, edutainment” . Outside the bustling edutainment sector with semi-privatised
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Dear Tony
In all honesty, hand on heart, do you seriously believe the main motivations of the US administration behind the occupation of Iraq were to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction, overthrow a tyrant, combat terrorism or spread democracy? On these counts your mission has failed dismally. The world is still plagued by WMDs,
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Dear Blairite MP,
Dear Ms Rachel Squire, The record shows that you have consistently supported the government on matters of war. In my humble opinion, all recent military interventions have directly inflicted death and destruction and sown the seeds of more interethnic violence. I doubt you have time to investigate the complex history of foreign involvement in civil
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