Amid the usual stories this week about the bank holiday washout, grumblings about the NHS and the sad and ongoing problems in the Middle East, there was one story that particularly caught my eye.
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Archive for May, 2007
I refer not to Tony Blair, but to Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell, who in his book 1984, described the now-infamous “Big Brother”, who was an omnipresent and omnipotent voyeur on the lives of all individuals in the new autocratic state.
The vision may have been science fiction when Orwell penned his masterpiece, but today, there are increasing numbers of people who think that his vision of the future may be becoming a reality in (Tony) Blair’s Britain. Continue reading ‘Blair’s Britain’
By the end of last week, it was clear that Gordon Brown was going to be “crowned” the next British Prime Minister, with neither Labour Party members nor the general public having any say on the matter. Continue reading ‘Leadership limbo’
It appears that there has been a bit of confirmation of what many of us have long suspected - that the BBC has a Labour/left-of-centre bias.
This afternoon, Tony Blair announced that he was standing down as Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, after presiding over three general election victories and the longest period of Labour rule in the history of British Parliamentary politics.
When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party after John Smith’s tragic death in 1994, he was seen a young, fresh, modernising politician, who would brush away the cobwebs of the previous Conservative administration.
The Tony Blair I saw retiring today, seemed an older, sadder man, who has missed the opportunities and misused the mandate that his landslide victories gave him.
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