Blog News (a new feature!)
August 2023
Some linked posts, new and not so new
From Muslim killer Modi to Iraq war criminal Blair to all-round disaster Brexit in several complicated moves
I’ve written – am still writing – a new post about the involvement of Hindu-supremacy à la Modi – Narendra Modi – in last year’s Leicester riots:
During the Leicester riots, a self-important stirrer turned out to be an Islamist supporter. But could the reporter who exposed him be trusted after what the Hutton report said about him?
The reporter was Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist who in 2003 exposed the Iraq war’s famous dodgy dossier. He was criticised by Hutton and forced to resign.
I checked Gilligan out and concluded that having won a UK Journalist of the Year award, he could (despite being right-wing and a close friend of disgraced superclown Boris ‘Bonzo’ Johnson) be trusted as a journalist.
Re the case of the dodgy dossier, Gilligan had taken on egomaniac Labour PM Tony Blair (high on his sycophancy to US toytown president George W Bush) and his feral PR rottweiler Alastair Campbell.
It didn’t go well for Gilligan. (It went worse for his source, government weapons expert David Kelly, who – supposedly – killed himself.) But Gilligan recovered – unlike the now disgraced Blair.
I put the story in a separate post:
As if Blair’s balls-up in Iraq wasn’t bad enough, there’s also Brexit, Britain’s disastrous 2016 decision to exit the European Union. That was also Blair’s fault.
Blair’s enthusiastic 2004 promotion of EU enlargement and the consequent unrestricted free-movement mass immigration to the UK from Eastern Europe – unrestricted because Blair chose not to use the permitted restrictions that, for instance, Germany and France used – led inevitably to grass-roots precariat pressure for a referendum and to the leave result.
See my (still relevant, I think) older posts:
Whilst double-checking I was right about Blair and Brexit – I was! – I came across an excellent 2016 article by Dr Erica Consterdine in the UK edition of international explanatory journalism magazine The Conversation:
(I emailed Dr C to ask for her comments. Sadly, she didn’t reply.)
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