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Bilderberg 2008 Conference – Attendee List

The 56th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Chantilly, Virginia, USA 5 – 8 June 2008. The Conference will deal mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, [...]

Blair’s Legacy: Official Secrets or Open Government?

The very day Blair formally announced his intention to step down as leader of the Labour Party, an Old Bailey judge sentenced a whistleblower to six months’ imprisonment and issued a gagging order against the media, sending a clear signal
that government secrecy remains strong. Parallel efforts by the government to undermine the two-year old Freedom [...]

Transcript of Tony Blair MP’s speech, May 10 2007

Trimdon Labour Club, Sedgefield
Monday 10 May 2007
It’s a great privilege to be here with you again today and to thank all of you too for such a wonderful and warm welcome.
I’d just like to say also if I might and just [...]

Harold Pinter – Nobel Lecture – Art, Truth & Politics

In 1958 I wrote the following:
‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.’
I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still [...]

UK Government to deny NHS healthcare to asylum seekers

LABOUR GOVERNMENT plans to deny asylum seekers access to healthcare are in disarray as almost the entire health profession signal their opposition.
At risk: asylum seekers to be denied NHS treatmentBlink has discovered that on the final day of the Department of Health consultation a host of medical bodies have come out against the [...]

UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT OF ORAL EVIDENCE OF RT HON TONY BLAIR MP

MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE LIAISON COMMITTEE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER – RT HON TONY BLAIR MP – July 6 2004
Evidence heard in Public Questions 144 – 288
NOTE:
1. This is an uncorrected transcript of evidence taken in public and reported to the House.
2. Any public use of, or reference to, the contents should [...]

Prime Minister Tony Blairs Speech To The House

The text of prime minister Tony Blair’s speech opening Tuesday’s debate on the Iraq crisis in the house of Commons, as released by 10 Downing Street.

Robin Cooks Resignation Speech In Full

Robin Cook, former UK foreign secretary and leader of the House of Commons, made a personal statement in parliament following his resignation on Monday.
On Tuesday night Cook won an unprecedented standing ovation after he called on MPs to reject Blair’s call for the use of “any means necessary” to disarm Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The following [...]