Was Peter Mandelson Poisoned By Chinese Milk?
JUST nine days before falling ill with kidney stones, UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson drank Chinese milk.
Concidence?
On Sept 26, in Tianjin at the World Economic Forum, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drank a glass of milk (click to see video) in front of the media to show his support for the Chinese dairy industry and said:
Shame he couldn’t have just fed it to one of his children. He goes on:
Posted: 13th, October 2008 | In: Labour Party, Politicians, The Blairs | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Why You’ll Love George Bush When He’s Gone
WHEN George Bush goes, you’ll love him. Stanley Fish agrees:
Now I would like to enter these treacherous waters again and venture another prediction: within a year of the day he leaves office, and no matter who succeeds him, George W. Bush will be a popular public figure, regarded with affection and a little nostalgia even by those who voted against him and thought he was the worst president in our history.
Does anyone really dislike George Bush the person, or just disagree with what he represents? He’s hard not to like…
Meanwhile, does anyone like Tony Blair, the worthy, humble, vain, greedy religion-on-his sleeve, pleasing, warmongering, creepy, grinning hero of the once bereft Left? Maybe when he goes, we will.
Posted: 29th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, George Bush, Politicians, The Blairs | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Caption This: When Cliff Met Cherie
CLIFF Richard and Cherie Blair… Or is it? You never see Tony and Cliff in the same place at the same time…
Your captions, please…
Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Celebrities, Photojournalism, Politicians, The Blairs | Comments (23) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
TONY BLair today starts his teaching career at Yale University, Euan Blair’s old haunt, , leading a seminar group on “faith and globalisation”.
Blair is participating in the “Faith and Globalization Initiative,” a three-year collaboration among Yale’s Divinity School, School of Management and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
Says John Stewart, on whose Daily Show tony is appearing to plug his product:
“Faith and globalization: Which side is winning?”
Tony:
“Bits of religion are very extreme, and the other you can see in the work that faith groups do to alleviate poverty and disease and do great things in the world,” Blair said. “So the question is, in the 21st century, which predominates: the good part that brings them together, or the bad part that pulls them apart?”
Or the bombs that allow God to sort it all out..?
Stewart: “Your relationship with George Bush seems .. inexplicable.”
Posted: 19th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Politicians, TV & Radio, The Blairs | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Cherie Blair Stops Talking Hysterically About Her Children
CHERIE Blair is talking about knife crime:
Says Cherie in the Indy:
Cherie Booth tells politicians to stop ‘hysterically’ hyping crime: The “hysterical rhetoric of politicians attempting to ride the tiger of public opinion” is fuelling the fear of crime, according to a commission headed by Cherie Booth. - September 5th 2008
Said Cherie Blair in the Indy:
Cherie Blair: ‘I fear for my children’: Cherie Blair admitted yesterday that she fears for the safety of her children when they go out on the streets. She also claimed that government figures drastically underestimate the scale of knife crime among children in Britain. - July 2nd 2008
Indeed…
Posted: 5th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, The Blairs | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sarah Palin Is Not A Woman, Not Really
WHY Sarah Palin is not a real women, by Menstrual Poetry:
Not only is Sarah Palin not a feminist, she is as anti-woman as Bush and McCain combined. That is the reason why McCain picked her; not because she is a woman and he wanted to be underhanded (which he totally did,) but because she’s a Republican, conservative man who just happens to be in a woman’s body.
Yes, really…
Posted: 4th, September 2008 | In: Politicians, Race For The White House, Sarah Palin, The Blairs, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tony Blair Cops Storm In Starbucks
“BLAIR COP LEAVES GUN IN LOO AT STARBUCKS.”
So says the Sun’s front-page screamers. And we ask: What’s a Blair cop, and how does it differ from Christian soldier, if in any way? And should we be worried that Blair cops have guns?
And do the Blair cops plan to storm Starbucks, that sink of watery coffee and tasteless cakes, thereby reconquering the British high street with single shot, a double shot and a triple shot?
Posted: 4th, September 2008 | In: Police Log, Politicians, Tabloids, The Blairs | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Tony’s Steps: Lauren Booth’s Peace Mission
TONY Blair is a peace envoy to the Middle East, and as chance has it his sister-in-law and jobbing Blair, Lauren Booth, is in the region.
Lauren is, says the Mirror, on a “peace boat”. She disembarks on the Gaza Strip.
Says Lauren Booth of the Blair-Booths, as she tries to leave via Egypt:
“I do not want any pity. I want to see my children.”
No pity. Just the horror. At least she’s wont blow herself up…
Posted: 3rd, September 2008 | In: Politicians, The Blairs, War On Terror | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
John Voight On Leaving Bristol Palin Alone
SAYS John Voight, the orginial gay cowboy:
We’re all human beings, we’ve all made mistakes in our life, unless we’re really some kind of saints that have never participated in human decisions. This kid’s going through a lot of stuff right now. I say, let’s put our attention on this kid with love and not make this trauma worse than it is.
Can you imagine her in a room trying to make a decision as to whether to tell her mom and dad about this situation? I mean that’s what I think. I think she’s going through a lot of hell, and we can make it worse or take care of her.”
Or leave her alone. Will the old media leave Bristol Palin alone, as they left Blair’s children alone, specifically Kathryn Blair?
Or does the BBC and other media not extend the same courtesy to the children of right wing or left wing politicos..?
Posted: 2nd, September 2008 | In: Politicians, Race For The White House, Sarah Palin, The Blairs | Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bush And Blair’s Legacy: Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11
THE 9/11 Truthers are out there. They know. How do they know? They just know. It was - some closer – the Jews.
Peter Bradshaw is reviewing a film for the Guardian: It’s called: Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11
Posted: 22nd, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, George Bush, Politicians, The Blairs, War On Terror | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
CHERIE Blair. Laura Bush is quite cute. Nancy Ray Guns. Brrrrrr. Hillary CLiton. Grrr. Michelle Obama… Says Sand Monkey:
I want you to think about this: There is a theory that states that the wife of any successfull political candidate has to be uglier than him or at the very least in the same realm of attractiveness, because if she is prettier than him, then for some reason women won;t vote for him. This is why John McCain will lose, because his wife is too pretty for him (and a heiress, of a beer empire, that motherfucker lucked out), while Obama will win, because he is a good looking dude and Michelle, well, she looks pretty busted. She looks-as one of my friends so eloquently put it- as if her face was hit by a bus. Women who look like that are the reason why we have dentists.
A face bump…
Posted: 22nd, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politicians, Race For The White House, The Blairs, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tea And Crumpet With Tony BLair
TONY Blair invites you for tea with him and his this Monday August 4th.
Wendi Deng is a friend. She’s married to Rupert Murdoch. Tony’s invitation is on his MySpace page…
Posted: 2nd, August 2008 | In: Politicians, The Blairs, Twitterings | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Barack Obama: Obama The Muslim Brother, Hiding From Gordon Brown And The Death Cult
OBAMANIA Watch - Anorak’s look at Barack Obama in the news
Barack Obama is in the UK for the final leg of his world your. He’s meeting Tony Blair. Let us pray:
THE SUN: “Barack Obarmy”
HUNDREDS of cops were standing by today to keep crowds at bay as the Barack Obama roadshow hit London.
Obama’s having breakfast with Tony Blair.
Posted: 26th, July 2008 | In: Barack Obama, Barack Obama Death Cult, Broadsheets, Gordon Brown, Politicians, Race For The White House, Tabloids, The Blairs | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
A Tip On How Hillary Clinton And Barack Obama Got A Bad Deal
PSSST! Want to know how to save money on your political campaign?
The US Presidential race is an expensive affair: Republican agonist John McCain has total receipts of $100.4 million for the whole campaign, less than half of Barack Obama’s total of $266.6 million since January 2007.
Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign to secure the Democrat Party’s nomination cost $212 million.
Big money.
But it could have been all decided for less, much less. No, not by a game of Russian Roulette, rather by aping the New Labour project.
The Deal, Stephen Frears’ “prequel to The Queen” is having its “world theatrical premiere” at an American Cinematheque screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on July 23.
Posted: 18th, July 2008 | In: Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Hillary Clinton, Money, Online-PR, Politicians, Race For The White House, The Blairs | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Michael White On Cherier Blair, Levy And Prescott’s Booky Wooks
MICHAEL White in The Times Literary Supplement: Cherie Blair and the Tony gang
Prescott’s book, the one with the swear words, was ghostwritten by Hunter Davies, who successfully captures the future Deputy Prime Minister’s tone of voice (“oh aye, we were great little boppers”, he says of his dancing teens) which is cheerfully demotic, often chippy. Levy’s Tiggerish account was polished by another journalist, Ned Temko, who parades all his client’s acknowledged faults, his insecurity, pushiness and vanity, yet renders him hard to dislike. Mrs Blair appears to be her own typist. If she were not a successful QC, her breezy style could earn her a decent living as a magazine writer: her text is peppered with phrases such as “dead impressed” and “dignity is not the word”, and such sentiments as “for me flying on Concorde was a dream come true”.
But her book – the most rounded of the three – is warm, often humorous, at times painfully sad. The generous reader learns to forgive her. “I fancied him rotten and still do”, she says of her husband. The Queen was “clearly very fond of Tony too”. None of which has prevented these three post-Blair autobiographies from being savaged, sometimes in the very newspapers which chose sensational extracts for serialization. To denounce the authors for undignified and mercenary backbiting is to ignore the bargain made: not so much cash-for-honours as cash-for-dignity.
Does anyone buy these books?
Posted: 30th, June 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Labour Party, Politicians, The Blairs, Twitterings | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Amy Winehouse Catches Tony Blair
AMY Winehouse has the “classic sings of TB”.
Who on reading that does not think that Winehouse has taken on the characteristics of Tony Blair?
Of course Tony has never billed himself as TB, for much the same reason that the Beckhams do not have “VD” embroidered into their car headrests.
But the link between Winehouse and Blair is not diminished by reading the Sun’s headline in full: “Coughing up blood, no appetite, weight loss…Amy has the classic sings of TB.”
She’s now in hospital, where she will be for 40 days and 40 nights.
That his name bears the initials of a disease cannot have escaped Tony Blair.
Posted: 20th, June 2008 | In: Amy Winehouse, Celebrities, Politicians, Tabloids, The Blairs | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
GMTV Celebrities On Tony Blair
FORMER EastEnders’ actor Joe Absolom tells Teltext that he ducked out of giving Tony Blair a piece of his mind.
The actor said had planned to challenge the former Prime Minister when they appeared together on GMTV. Says he:
“I planned to say to Tony, ‘Why are we in the war?’ But when I met him in the studio I just said, ‘Wotcha, Tony!’”
It’s the wotcha on terror…
Posted: 9th, June 2008 | In: Celebrities, Politicians, TV & Radio, The Blairs | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation
THE Tony Blair Faith Foundation (Why didn’t we think of it first? Oh well…):
On May 30 in New York, Blair, 55, formally unveils The Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which, among other things, is dedicated to proving that collaboration among those of different religious faiths can help address some of the world’s most pressing social problems.
It’s an “inter-faith encounter through action”. Really, it is…
Posted: 29th, May 2008 | In: Politicians, The Blairs, Twitterings | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sexism And The City Of Washington DC
HILLARY Clinton might be a woman:
Gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind has been shamelessly peddled by the US media, which - sooner rather than later, I fear - will have to account for their sins…
More women hating here:
Shaker Pocochina covers at her place the two articles Bill Clinton Has “Never Seen a Candidate Treated So Disrespectfully Just for Running” and Clinton Sheds Pantsuits for Puerto Rico, both of which can be found at ABC News’ Policial Radar, juxtaposed without a trace of irony.
Posted: 26th, May 2008 | In: Hillary Clinton, Politicians, The Blairs, Twitterings | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tony Blair Chased For An Unpaid Bill
A KNOCK at the Blairs’ door:
Tony and Cherie Blair were threatened with the bailiffs over an unpaid bill at their constituency home, expenses documents released by the Commons show.
The Blairs got a reminder notice from Northumbrian Water in November 2005, addressed to “Mr C L Blair” for £147.
“Your account may be transferred to a debt recovery agency…We appreciate that you may be experiencing some financial difficulties,” it said.
Read all about that and more in Cherie’s next book…
Posted: 23rd, May 2008 | In: Politicians, The Blairs | Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
