Monday, 5 September 2011





If you were wondering why Tony Blair was so quiet during the phone-hacking crisis, no look further than the Vogue interview with Murdoch’s wife, and chief bodyguard, Wendi Deng. It’s not online yet, but The Telegraphreports that it claims Blair is the godfather to one of the Murdoch’s children:


On the Farm: David Miliband & Alistair Darling




Scottish RadicalismThe Commentator
Britain, Libya and Extraordinary RenditionMail
War on PilgrimsConservativeHome
Sins of the PastMail
A New Party – Graham Archer
Gordon Brown Suffers in Silence – Marina Hyde
Toynbee Snaps Over Earnings AttackLondoner’s Diary
Darling Leaks are a Taste of What’s To Come – Nick Robinson
Tory MEP JunketPSbook
PM Slaps Down BBC – Paul Waugh
Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Links to Neo-NazisHarry’s Place
Economist Warns Against Green Jobs ‘Creation’GWPF
Cameron Not Liked – Iain Martin
Balls Claims He did Not Want Darling’s JobBBC
What Sort of Modernisation, Dave? – Harry Cole
Too Late for Vickers – Andrew Lilico



Alistair Darling on the Brownies…

“It would be wrong to claim that there was a plot to get rid of Tony Blair; there was no plot. A plot is secret. This was an open campaign, and as far as the Brownite cabal were concerned, you were with them or against them. It was a fairly brutal regime, and many of us fell foul of it.”