Old Labour was inspired by Stalin's policies;
New Labour is inspired by Stalin's methods...
Threats to Blair on power and pay - 08/07/96
Blair tightens grip on the Left - 29/07/96
A government of Blairites - 29/07/99
Cook 'gagged on euro' - 12/06/01 Senior cabinet colleagues were afraid any debate on the issue would harm Labour's chances of winning the election
Euro gag claim 'nonsense' - 12/06/01 Labour's new party chairman, Charles Clarke: "the suggestion that anybody's been gagged is absolute nonsense"
McDonagh to quit - 21/06/01 Labour Party general secretary known as a control freak
Bucking the system - 28/06/01 Anyone who believed the second New Labour government would be humbled by its massive victory and start behaving less like an elected dictatorship after 7 June will have been disappointed by its behaviour so far
MPs call for stronger Commons - 28/06/01 Around 130 MPs from across the political spectrum have signed a motion calling for a strengthening of parliament's power to hold the government to account
Blairite is elected as MPs' 'shop steward' - 11/07/01
Government purges critical MPs - 11/07/01
Labour ousts the dissenters from select committees - 12/07/01 The rift between the Government and many of its own backbenchers widened yesterday after two senior Labour MPs were sacked from the chairmanships of key parliamentary committees
Cook defends committee sackings - 12/07/01
Ministers tell Blair to be more open about policy - 13/07/01 Four ministers have warned Tony Blair that the Government must abandon its "control-freak" policy towards public services if his flagship reforms are to work
Boothroyd attacks MPs' sackings - 13/07/01 she accused ministers of trying to manipulate parliament
Labour MPs urged to rebel - 15/07/01 ministers' actions had been "too blatant" to let them get away with it
Labour defeated [301 to 232] over committee chairs - 16/07/01 The government has been forced into an humiliating U-turn over its decision to sack independent-minded Labour select committee chairmen... Labour backbenchers restless over the party leadership's alleged "control freakery"
Blair yields to power of Parliament - 17/07/01 Labour MPs staged a humiliating revolt over attempts to sack two independent chairmen
Labour MPs elect rebel representatives - 18/07/01 to challenge Downing Street's "White House" tendency... another sign of Labour backbenchers' unwillingness to be taken for granted
Anger as outspoken Whitehall watchdog is sacked by Blair Government - 15/08/01
Campbell ousts the Chief Whip - 07/09/01 Tony Blair has given his director of communications, Alastair Campbell, his own house in Downing Street!!! Tony Benn: "it just tells you everything about what is going on"
Net freedom fears 'hurt terror fight' - 28/09/01
Bleasdale and BBC clash over Labour satire - 30/09/01 series may never be broadcast, because it is critical of New Labour
Anger over £.5m bill for Blair's aides - 01/10/01
Why it is anathema to legislate against abusing other religions - 04/10/01
Blair Leaves British Awed or Seething Over His Role - 05/10/01 Britain is looking like a presidential state, with no cabinet left to speak of, with the spotlight directed on to a single chief executive and with a legislature that barely merits consultation
Jo Moore's chief error was in getting caught out - 10/10/01 Manipulation of the news is the very stuff of Labour's culture of obsessive media control
Blunkett readies 'Big Brother' law - 17/10/01
Mowlam savages 'presidential' Blair - 16/11/01
MP seeks to 'legalise' Blair - 28/11/01 Mr Blair exercises powers "that would make Stalin blush"
Colleagues 'attacked' me, says MP - 05/12/01 Paul Marsden
Rebel MP accuses Labour Whips of Commons assault - 06/12/01
Marsden fights back against party machine - 06/12/01
Marsden faces questions from local Labour party - 07/12/01
Tory leader mocks 'childlike' ministers - 07/12/01 accusing the government of behaving like a child throwing a tantrum in its determination to control everybody
Marsden quits, tired of control freaks and spin - 11/12/01
Prisons chief 'forced to quit' - 17/12/01 pushed out of his job in "an appallingly underhand way" by ministers
Blair's bully-boy gag on patients - 25/01/02 Downing Street declared war yesterday on patients who make high-profile complaints about mistreatment in NHS hospitals
Labour's insult to injury - 25/01/02 "Do not complain or else"
Downing Street guide to corridors of power - 01/02/02
Blair Force One faces Brown veto - 15/02/02
Sunday Times leader: A soiled reputation - 17/02/02 the government is finally paying the price of its arrogance and contempt for anyone who questions it
King Tony exiles blame from his personal rule - 17/02/02 Mr Blair, like a vain Stuart king claiming divine right to rule, is never to blame
Civil Service row escalates - 18/02/02
Revolt of the civil servants - 25/02/02 angry over the way they are being blamed for decisions taken by politicians
Byers brings Whitehall to the verge of open rebellion - 25/02/02 This government is different. It is not so much authoritarian as, in its essence, totalitarian. So convinced is it of its own rightness that it believes opposition is, in itself, wrong
Again, Labour fails to answer the charges - 25/02/02 There is growing alarm at the way that the Civil Service is being politicised and that traditions of impartiality are being swept aside by a Government obsessed with presentation
Bashing Sir Humphrey - 25/02/02 The institutions of the state, from NHS trusts to the BBC, have been put under Labour placemen
Byers shows how ruthlessly Labour represses argument - 27/02/02
Civil Service under siege - 28/02/02
Former Whitehall chief urges curb on spin doctors - 28/02/02
Tories fight threat to police independence - 28/02/02 Blunkett wants to dictate how chief constables should run their forces
Blunkett is laying the ground to make Britain a police state - 28/02/02
Minister's adviser Jo Moore 'bullied' staff - 28/02/02
Sleaze-buster sets sights on special advisers - 02/03/02
Watchdog to summon spin duo - 04/03/02
Blair's 'meddling' advisers under fire - 04/03/02 "Never in peace time has a prime minister gathered around himself such an assemblage of apparatchiks unaccountable to Parliament"
Labour rebel Richard Balfe joins Tories in disgust - 06/03/02 Mr Blair seems "mesmerised by millionaires". "Labour sleaze" now goes right to the heart of government
Blair's arrogance and dishonesty leads me to the Conservatives - 06/03/02 Richard Balfe
Labour defector who grew tired of the fixers - 06/03/02 Richard Balfe became known for his scrupulous impartiality and fell foul of Labour's control-freak tendency
Defector predicts end to Blair's reign of fear - 07/03/02 Richard Balfe: There are a lot of people in the Labour Party who are afraid for their futures
Voters will cross the floor - 07/03/02 Richard Balfe contrasted Tony Blair's arrogance and failure to reform the public services with Iain Duncan Smith's tolerance, particularly on Europe
Byers mortally wounded - 08/03/02 Labour's reliance on spin doctors has deeply corrupted the way in which we are governed, above all by demoralising the Civil Service
Blair accused of failing to release his grip on NHS - 08/03/02 The NHS Reform Bill was supposed to devolve power. Instead, it gave 58 new powers to the secretary of state but gave nothing to doctors
Government targets mean bunions get treated before cancer, says top surgeon - 10/03/02 There is widespread concern among consultants that they are being forced to adopt Labour's political commitments at the expense of medical standards
Civil Service chief calls for limit on special advisers - 15/03/02
Prudent use of the sword - 21/03/02 Having given the Opposition no notice of one of the largest deployments for a decade, the Government then tried to deny the Commons a debate
Labour peer quits over Byers veto - 21/03/02 This seems to be the first time the people being regulated were being allowed to veto the regulator
The hounding of liberty - 22/03/02 Labour seem almost completely indifferent to the questions of what laws are for, and how they affect people
Byers makes Blair's Project wobble as Brown stands by - 26/03/02 the Project refers to a conspiracy by a group of friends who set out in the 1980s to stop Labour from behaving in the normal way, so that it could be the party of government... There have been numerous confrontations between the party and the Project, which the Project has won on every important occasion, its victories aided by Mr Blair's power of patronage
Blair told that he has to listen - 27/03/02 He replied with a speech stressing the importance of party discipline
Blair is a vain dictator, says school union chief - 05/04/02 with "a few chosen special advisers and a few motley millionaires"
New snooper's charter sparks privacy outcry - 12/04/02 private files containing people's detailed personal information would be passed between government agencies without the knowledge or consent of those concerned
A free country? - 12/04/02 more peeking by more officials into our personal and private lives
Blair backs sweeping new powers for snoopers - 12/04/02 the gravest threat to privacy we have ever seen in this country
Blair complains over royal funeral stories - 24/04/02 ...which claimed he had attempted to "muscle in" on the Queen Mother's funeral earlier this month: Queen puts Blair in his place
Blair accused of fantasising over media 'plotting' - 25/04/02
The blinding truth - 25/04/02 an apology...
A career in publicity - 25/04/02
Rally on May Day to blow the whistle on the control freaks - 25/04/02
Labour MPs face committee axe after missing vital meeting - 01/05/02
Spin doctors add gloss to MPs' answers - 07/05/02 Labour special advisers are being allowed to tamper with the Parliamentary answers that civil servants prepare for MPs
Farm slaughter powers are slipped past MPs - 09/05/02 new regulations came to light last night hidden among other legislation
Blair doesn't want a reformed Lords, he just wants control - 16/05/02
Blair puts his faith in the young ones - 30/05/02 oldies axed in reshuffle
Blair is worst PM, says Labour MP - 07/06/02 Mr Dalyell condemned Mr Blair's "presidential" style
The strange case of Blair, the royal funeral and Black Rod - 12/06/02 Boris Johnson... Blair tried to use the Press Complaints Commission to prevent new and interesting facts from being put into the public domain
Labour blasts 'pious' media - 12/06/02 government agenda of suppressing dissent
Civil servants 'give biased answers to MPs' questions' - 12/06/02 Civil servants have been ordered to rewrite internal guidelines for vetting questions from MPs after Labour was accused of allowing the system to become politically motivated
Whips attempt to 'silence' key critic Dunwoody - 13/06/02 the Labour MP blamed for contributing to Stephen Byers's downfall
It's here, it's now: Big Brother's reign has begun - 13/06/02 what does Labour's big database know about you?
No 10 in full retreat on funeral row - 14/06/02 Black Rod's document is "dynamite" because of highly embarrassing disclosures about the amount of pressure applied by Downing Street
It's his funeral - 14/06/02 Number 10 has confirmed that the "lie" was true
The knives are out for Campbell - 14/06/02 who now commands a growing empire of press officers and officials from a new office in No 12 Downing Street
I won't go quietly, says Dunwoody - 14/06/02
Tory peers pledge to block 'snooper's charter' move - 17/06/02 They oppose a ministerial order that would allow organisations to monitor the emails, mobile telephone calls and internet activities of private citizens
Monstrously illiberal - 17/06/02 never before have we been faced with a proposal as illiberal, disproportionate and dangerous as the extension of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
Blunkett retreats on email 'snooper charter' - 18/06/02
Blunkett abandons Big Brother - 18/06/02 for the time being
Curb Campbell's powers over civil servants, says watchdog - 18/06/02
Blair aides' power under attack - 18/06/02
'Snooper's charter' dropped - 19/06/02 the Home Office had "dug itself into a hole" over a proposal condemned by critics as a snooper's charter
Blair's policy enforcement team set up - 25/06/02
Criticisms fail to halt planning changes - 01/07/02 Prescott plans to remove county councils' planning powers even though nine out of 10 of those consulted by the Government oppose the reforms
Why Orwell Still Matters - 03/07/02
Blunkett's mission to control - 10/07/02
Emails expose uncivil servants - 10/07/02 Phil Willis, Liberal Democrat education spokesman: under Labour, the Civil Service is being politicised and officials were now engaged in "deliberate manipulation"
Labour forces through rise in MPs' pensions - 21/07/02 Labour whips are using "bullyboy tactics" to force through plans to increase MPs' pensions by more than 20%
Reform by stealth turns peers into members - 10/08/02 Ministers were accused last night of acting "by stealth" to speed up the pace of reform without the agreement of either House of Parliament
Lords reform by stealth - 10/08/02 Reform of the House of Lords has slipped into the clutches of spin doctors
Blair 'blocking' Iraq debate - 16/08/02
Blair seizes chance to bring in the big hitters - 25/10/02
Dalyell kicked out of Commons - 11/02/03 "The British people have been deceived .... on a matter which is the basis of peace and war"
Satellite tracking will drive up cost of school run - 08/06/03
Blair casts aside legal history in radical reshuffle - 13/06/03
Blair's coup d'etat - 13/06/03 removing one of the keystones of our unwritten constitution without prior consultation with the judiciary, peers or the Opposition, and showing his contempt for the rule of law, as it has evolved in Britain over the past thousand years and more
Blair reshuffle under fire - 13/06/03 He failed to inform the Queen, the Commons, the Lords and the people that the he was intending to abolish one of the great offices of state
Fury erupts at Blair's 'botched' reshuffle - 14/06/03 Iain Duncan Smith said the Prime Minister was acting like a "tinpot dictator" and treating the centuries-old British constitution as his "personal plaything"
Modern isn't the same as good, Prime Minister - 14/06/03 First, he decides that he doesn't like the look or the sound of something - the Lord Chancellorship, the House of Lords, fox-hunting, the pound - without bothering to inquire whether it works, or whether people like it. Next, he announces that he is going to abolish it. Only then does he start to turn his mind to what might be put in its place and what might work better
Blair forced Irvine to resign in humiliating reshuffle row - 15/06/03
Blair on the rack over reshuffle chaos - 16/06/03 he committed a "gross discourtesy" by failing to warn the Queen of his plans to scrap the 1,400-year-old post of Lord Chancellor... the Queen was said to be "livid"... Downing Street faced further embarrassment after it emerged that Lord Irvine of Lairg, Mr Blair's mentor, was sacked as Lord Chancellor after he objected to the plan
What next - the monarchy? - 16/06/03 The abolition of the Lord Chancellorship has brought out all of Tony Blair's old vices - contempt for established institutions, arrogance, unthinking support for anything that can be called "modern" - as well as a new one: ineptness
Falconer faces demands to give more details of judicial reforms - 16/06/03 The Government's critics, apparently from the Queen downwards, have been unanimous in saying that there should have been consultation before a decision was taken
Blair fears opposition to reforms will boost Tories - 17/06/03 he refused to attend the Commons to respond to an emergency debate on the constitutional implications of the Cabinet changes
Blair misled us all, say ex-ministers - 18/06/03 Robin Cook and Clare Short were told by MI6 in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction. But Blair bypassed the Cabinet, tried to prevent his ministers from receiving MI6 briefings and left the decisions on the invasion of Iraq to a small, unelected "entourage" in his private office
Cherie Blair attacks Rome over status of women - 19/06/03 now the Blairs are telling the Pope what to do!
Blair acting like president creates unrest, says Meacher - 23/06/03 Downing Street claimed Mr Meacher, 63, had "resigned". In an interview on GMTV's Sunday Programme, he made clear he had been sacked
Ministers past and present continue to be a taxing problem for Blair - 23/06/03 Mr Blair ordered Mr Hain to tear up a speech calling for a national debate on taxation
BBC reply to Alastair Campbell - 28/06/03 No 10 tried to intimidate the BBC in its reporting of the war
Straw accused of blocking 'dodgy dossier' inquiry - 28/06/03 Mr Straw was forced to correct himself after initially appearing to contradict Mr Campbell's version of events
Blair's 'abuse of power' led to Kelly death, says Short - 07/09/03
Tories pan Labour 'command state' - 11/09/03
Hate crimes could see longer sentences - 11/09/03 how long before people are executed for not supporting Labour?
Blunkett's ID cards blocked in Cabinet - 12/09/03
MPs criticise lack of Iraq vote - 29/09/03
Analysis: Blair ducks war vote - 29/09/03 this has only served to further inflame the fury of the anti-war movement who are claiming that the prime minister is trying to shut down all dissent
Labour conference 'like Nuremberg' - 01/10/03
Scientists attack Blair over GM - 31/10/03 the politicians have not set up a level playing field for the debate
Tory leader gives Blair taste of the Paxman grilling - 11/12/03 the Prime Minister looks evasive, arrogant and disdainful of proper procedures
Darling gags his transport advisers - 16/12/03
Get rid of sexism, Cherie tells Pope - 19/12/03
Howard wages war on Labour's 'army of interferers' - 02/01/04
Scots MPs come to Blair's rescue on top-up fees - 18/01/04 11 ministers with seats in Scotland - including the Chancellor, Gordon Brown - are preparing to vote for the Government, even though English MPs have no say over education policy in Scotland
Warnings, whispers, brutes and bullies - just another night at the Commons - 18/01/04
Rebel MP finds the price of dissent is £600 - 24/01/04
Blair plans to ditch Sir Humphrey - 24/02/04 Who is to blame for Labour's complete failure to delivery on any of their promises? The Civil Service of course!
Hain says Labour ignores members - 10/03/04
Whistleblower rap for Falconer - 01/04/04
Falconer is rebuked over whistleblower - 02/04/04
Curtains for Blair's 'sofa cabinet'? - 15/07/04
The Prime Minister, his spymaster and the danger of government by inner circle - 15/07/04
Blunkett to vet immigration book - 29/08/04
Recalled Uzbek envoy speaks out - 15/10/04
Minister advocates 'nanny state' - 26/11/04
Butler launches attack on Blair - 09/12/04
Prime Minister accused of 'obscene' power struggle - 03/01/04
Mandelson warns BBC on Campbell - 07/02/05
Mandelson fires warning at BBC over 'dirty tricks' - 09/02/05
'I am terrified by the current political targets. The situation is dangerous and intolerable' - 10/04/05 emails and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act display how, under Labour, political interference has reached unprecedented and unacceptable levels
A manifesto composed by control freaks - 14/04/05 a government that has run out of ideas, but retains its driving desire to tell us how to live, what to eat and how to bring up our children
Blair courts fresh controversy with peerage and job for aide - 10/05/05
Blair under fire over reshuffle - 10/05/05 Blair's 'henchman'
Hoon suggests compulsory voting - 04/07/05
Meyer broke our trust, says Straw - 11/11/05
Interview: Peter Kilfoyle - 05/12/05 Reading MP Martin Salter last week resigned his junior government role in protest at the aggressive way the education reforms are being sold to MPs, reportedly comparing one meeting to the "Nuremberg Rally"
How I woke up to a nightmare plot to steal centuries of law and liberty - 15/02/06 The extraordinary Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, currently before the House, gives ministers power to amend, repeal or replace any legislation simply by making an order and without having to bring a Bill before Parliament
'Prejudicial interest' rules make mockery of democracy - 26/02/06
Blair's crackdown on freedom is an inspiration to tyrants - 24/05/06
Boothroyd slams 'arrogant' Blair - 09/06/06
Labour MPs facing 'yellow cards' - 11/07/06
Heckler voted on to Labour's NEC - 03/08/06
In full: Tom Watson's resignation - 06/09/06 Labour Chief Whip used threats to try to make him withdraw his support for the 2001 intake letter to Blair
Clarke attack on Brown 'the deluded control freak' - 09/09/06 Gordon Brown faced growing anger on the Left and Right of the Labour Party last night as senior figures questioned his suitability to become prime minister
Clarke on Brown: he lacks courage and vision, he's delusional and a control freak - 09/09/06
Hain: Labour must not be Big Brother - 23/09/06
Mandelson warns over union power - 24/09/06
How web of regulation has grown under Labour - 29/11/06
Labour 'staged a Whitehall coup' - 08/03/07