The End of the Party - Kindle edition by Rawnsley, Andrew. Nor do we yet know why he preferred to fool himself about the influence he held over either.
As in bad plays, the characters all speak with the same voice. Brown's camp followers, such as Mr Balls, apparently proved their loyalty to the "capo di capi" by their brutality.Advisers came and went, including the clearly execrable Damian McBride. When made foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett's predictable reaction is to say "Fuck".
Yet I do not myself think that having a bad temper makes someone a bad man.
If you do that, I can destroy you!"
Far from it. A more honest approach to releasing the book would have demanded a more honest response from the people it reports. On page 361 we read: "Blair's relationship with Brown was at a new nadir."
We got a show of competence in the handling of floods and animal disease.
But I recognise that politics is about give and take, in and out, turn and turn about. There are over 70 double-columned pages of references to sources, mostly identified, although the number remaining anonymous appears to increase as the story of Gordon Brown's premiership unfolds. According to Jonathan Powell, Blair's handling of the succession "will be a bigger criticism of Tony than the Iraq war".You need to be pretty resilient to get through all this, with the plots, the counter-plots, the character assassination, the accusations of loose screws, the effing and blinding. It is very sad that John Smith died so prematurely. In trying to explain his disastrous inability to confront Bush, a man possessed, as Rawnsley says, with considerable "peasant cunning", it has always been the conventional wisdom to say that Blair was a sort of head prefect with a fatal weakness for sucking up to headmasterly power.
When the smoke of mock-battle clears, we shall be left with the most thorough, the most enjoyable and the most original book yet written about New Labour.The book's authority rests on an impressive breadth of research.
What are we to make of a government which came up with 3,600 new criminal offences in 10 years?Please preview your comment below and click ‘post’ when you’re happy with it.The book is by no means perfect. To adapt Frank Field's happy phrase, Mrs Rochester was let out of the attic.
You know she's going to use that word because Alastair Campbell has used the same word when told of David Kelly's death – which, characteristically, Campbell seems to regard as being more his tragedy than Kelly's. Saltar al contenido principal. The Observer's own abject eagerness to collude in the neoconservative adventure in Iraq, which lost a once-serious newspaper both the patience of most of its readers and some readers altogether, is passed over entirely, as is any more general mention of the press's wider disgrace. You can only set your username once.Sadly, by their cack-handed strategy of pompous embargoes and ill-judged excerpts, thrown like raw meat into the 24-hour news grinder, Rawnsley's publishers have done their author few favours. So the Labour party deserved its chance. The stage was set for an election. What on earth are we to make of a man who, on the day he left No 10, had already inked in 500 appointments for his first 12 months out of office? Through riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal, Rawnsley takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour.
Through riveting inside accounts of all the key events from 9/11 and the Iraq War to the financial crisis and the parliamentary expenses scandal, Rawnsley takes us through the triumphs and tribulations of New Labour.
Is it only journalists of a certain age who insist that homosexual politicians are always "feline" and that they must invariably "sashay" down Downing Street?David Hare is a playwright and screenwriter.Any psychiatrist who began to question the behaviour of a leader permanently surrounded by half-eaten bananas would already have noted that images of insanity haunt the whole volume.
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