Labour caught napping over bedroom tax
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband Labour has been tackling the government over the bedroom tax. Ed Miliband has raised it at Prime Minister's Question Time. He and other MPs have exposed the iniquities of the new legislation. However, comments from the shadow employment minister pose the question as to whether Labour is opposed to it in princip…
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Ignore Blair's lust for war
Labour leader Ed Miliband should closely examine the views put forward by Tony Blair in a recent TV interview, and have nothing to do with them. Blair, who has hoovered up a personal fortune of up to £60 million since stepping down as prime minister, was unapologetic about the military adventures into which he dragged Britain's armed forces. …
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Tony Blair Re-invents Himself
Even by the standards of a seemingly increasingly partisan British media, the decision to invite Tony Blair to Guest Edit the London Evening Standard on 27th June, the fifth anniversary of his leaving office was, well, bizarre. The Standard (established1827) gained early eminence for its detailed foreign news. Within little over forty years of its f…
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Blair to 're-engage' with politics
Since he left Downing Street almost five years ago, Tony Blair has been careful to avoid intervening in domestic controversies, preferring to concentrate on foreign affairs and his business interests. That could be about to change, amid signs that the former Prime Minister is turning his attention back to British politics. He has started meeting sm…
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Blair's made millions since quitting
Tony Blair is preparing a new push to re-enter British politics as he hires a new spin doctor to put a gloss on some of the criticism that has followed him since leaving Number 10. The former prime minister ‘has things to say’ and believes the time is right for him to make an impact on the home front after years in political exile. Mr Blair's is…
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Miliband concedes 'negatives' of Iraq
The list of "positives" from the Iraq war are outweighed by the longer list of "negatives", according to David Miliband, the Labour former foreign secretary, whose vote for the 2003 invasion has subsequently turned into a millstone around his neck. "It's very tempting for people in my position, to say that we will add to the pos…
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Vote No to Ethnic Cleansing!
For over eight years, members of Britain's parliament and those sitting on city councils, have refused to give a progressive voice to Iraq’s refugee's and our religious minority communities, who have been forced to flee as a result of violence and sectarian persecution. Silence has allowed unimaginable terror, poverty and further acts of ethnic cle…
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Oil firms and the invasion of Iraq
Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show. The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cab…
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