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In Mr Rentoul's fantasy world, New Labour stands to the progressive left of the current Tory/LibDem management team. However, whenever they deviate from the party line on neoliberal globalisation, Mr Rentoul doesn't like it. How dare Nick Clegg suggest the oil-motivated invasion of Iraq was illegal? How dare anyone suggest that long-term environment sustainability is more important than short-term profits. NewLabour left this country in a huge mess, Mr Rentoul, with Europe's least sustainable economy, ...

No because you are sycophant unable to accept that your country commits war crimes for greed and doesn't give a damn about the long term security of its own people, only the profits of large multinationals.

One cannot help but notice all the ads for big pharma's products in the Independent's online edition. That's right: 1) Get a new generation hooked on war-themed fighting games (and rely on your friends in the PR industry to deny any adverse psychological effects). 2) Discourage critical thinking by spreading junk culture..... 3) Deny young people of any meaningful job prospects and bring in more migrants to fill vacancies once occupied by young natives.. 4) Advertise armed forces jobs... 5) Psycho-screen...

Would manipulative oil multinationals seek to stifle free speech? A conspiracy theory surely. Anyone who seriously thinks our benevolent corporate masters have evil intentions is seriously deluded and needs to consult her/his local Stasi official psychiatrist. These hackers are surely evil terrorists, probably racists and almost certainly a threat to our free-market democracy. Let's get back to watching TV, reading popular books, gambling online and playing war-themed video games, like all upstanding...

Ok, let's call it damage limitation and get the chattering classes to believe a version that is least detrimental to the UK's criminal ruling elite. The Independent's editors know most critically thinking readers (as opposed to those suffering from compulsive social conformity disorder) suspect some MI5/6 or CIA-types assassinated Kelly because he knew too much, having worked in Porton Down, the UK's bio-chemical warfare lab. Also his apparent tacit support for the UK government's stance can be explained...

Your whole argument assumes a war criminal, i.e. one of the prime propagandists for the US-led oil-motivated invasion of Iraq, is entitled to earn such large sums of money. It's obscene. What kind of fool is going to expect any insights from a book written by a man who dismisses the oil motive as a wild Internet conspiracy theory while simultaneously accepting funds from banks and oil multinationals.

Mr Rentoul, your interpretation of George Orwell's notes on Nationalism is flawed and ahistorical. The Iraq war was not between an authoritarian and expansionist Central European superpower and British and French empires, but between a greedy global superpower, centred around the US and UK, and a former British colony, whose leadership had fallen out with the United States. Goebbels exploited humanitarian concerns and national security to justify annexation of the Sudetenland and interwar Polish corridor. ...

As you well know, Blair was a poodle, a mere middle manager and public relations officer for conglomerate of vested corporate and military interests. His electoral success was engineered and the alternative, the Tories, hardly appealing to most informed citizens. So which policies did Labour Supporters approve of? Deregulating gambling? Outsourcing industry? Dumbing down our kids and creating a generation of misfits. Expanding surveillance? Invading foreign countries? Lying about the real reasons for war? ...