Crony Capitalism UK: Abingdon Health: An update

9 April 2021 — Good Law Project

Last week, the High Court granted permission to advance our case against Government for its award of contracts to Abingdon Health for rapid antibody tests. The deal with Abingdon Health has been marred by controversy since the very beginning, with Government suppressing reports that raised the alarm around the effectiveness of the tests and ignoring their own legal advice on the lawfulness of the contracts.

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BIBI bangs the war drum By Edward Teague

5 February 2006 — The New Dark Age

Likud chairman and prime minister hopeful Binyamin Netanyahu was joined by  senior Likud MKs, Gideon Saar, Yuval Seinitz, Dan Naveh, Limor Livnat, Gilad Erdan, Yisrael Katz, Uzi Landau, and Silvan Shalom as well as 2 non MK Likud candidates, Natan Sharansky and Keren Barak on a tour of the security fence in the settlement of Beit Aryeh.

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HM Government announces “No Bomber Left Behind” Policy Edward Teague

25 July 2005 — The New Dark Age

DialloIn several announcements today the UK Government made it clear that the NBLB (just a bloodied mess) policy which had been covertly introduced by the previous Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Lord Stevens, as “Operation Kratos” would continue and if necessary be extended. What this policy involves is what the elite members of London’s finest , SO19 , call the “the shot of excellence.”

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No Sleepy Times Down South By Edward Teague

14 March 2005 — The New Dark Age

Roger (Rogelio) Pardo-Maurer IV is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and reports to Rumsfeld. Graduate in History from Yale and Economics from Cambridge (England), he contributed to 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States. Pardo-Maurer also served in combat with the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

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Hazel Blears Tongue Lashed by Michael Howard By Edward Teague

13 March 2005 — The New Dark Age

Charles Clarke’s über babe Hazel Blears, her dazzling smile benefiting from ample supplies from her Avon Lady, sits, with her bright, lustrously shining acrylic, tinted, bobbed and curled hair, attentive, like a Robin waiting for a worm. Her pallid, immobile face, with arched and painted brows, emphasised and incarnadined with a slash of carmine red on her slightly parted and eager lips, with an uptilted unblinking joyless stare, she resembles a cheap blow-up sex doll.

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The Unspeakable in Pursuit By Edward Teague

9 March 2005 — The New Dark Age

The 7th and current The Earl of Onslow, brother in law of the much lamented Auberon Waugh, is an unblushing Tory, and is the only hereditary peer to have appeared as a panellist on Have I Got News for You. He unashamedly enjoys hunting foxes and all that it involves. During a Lords debate on Anti-Hunting legislation on September 16th 2003 (Hansard Column 891 et.seq.) he memorably declared his interest:
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No slow boats to China anymore By Edward Teague

6 March 2005 — The New Dark Age

The China Shipping Group was founded on July 1,1997, in Shanghai. It is one of the 44 key state-owned enterprises under the direct administration of the government, but also has two publicly listed companies, China Shipping Development and China Shipping (Hainan) Haisheng, whose H shares and A shares are traded on the stock markets of Hong Kong and Shanghai respectively. These shares have risen 27 percent in Hong Kong in the past year, compared with tiny 2.4% increase in the Hang Seng index.

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Oil. Big Profits. Big changes? By Edward Teague

5 March 2005 — The New Dark Age

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), buoyed by record oil prices, became (by market capitalisation, $411BN Shares at $64) the largest company in the world. They have taken No1 place from General Electric (NYSE:GE) whose Market Capitalisation is today, $382 BN Exxon Mobil also claim to be the largest oil co in terms of proved reserves and production, including 36% of known North American oil and gas reserves.

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New Labour puts the National into Socialism by Edward Teague

1 March 2005 — The New Dark Age

“Bush/Blair…we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values…” – Project for the New American Century June 3rd 1997

“I explained to the Prime Minister that the policy of my government is the removal of Saddam and that all options are on the table.” – Press Conference: Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George Bush 6 April 2002

“I advocate an enlightened self interest that puts fighting for our values right at the heart of the policies necessary to protect our nations. Engagement in the world on the basis of these values, not isolationism from it is the hard-headed pragmatism for the 21st Century.” – Prime Minister’s speech at the George Bush Senior Presidential Library 7th April 2002

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“Shoot ‘em, Torture ‘em.” War is hell boy! by Edward Teague

21 February 2005 — The New Dark Age

Febmattis Lt. Gen. James Mattis, commanded Marine expeditions in Afghanistan and Iraq, spoke at the San Diego Convention Center during an exposition sponsored by the U.S. Naval Institute and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association on Tuesday 2nd Feb. 2005.

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PM wants General Nizar al Khazraji “brought to justice” by Edward Teague

17 February 2005 — The New Dark Age

February 1st, 1800 Hrs. the Board Room of the Manchester Evening News and ten selected members of the public are here to ask the Prime Minister a question. Self-consciously they wait to pose the question, their carefully vetted anodyne questions for the prim Minister who is in town.

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American secrets, Mossad spies and sex, sex, sex by Edward Teague

14 February 2005 — The New Dark Age

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A photograph of Arie Scher and accomplice George Schteinberg found by Brazilian police. The photo shows the two men standing, hugging each other. Each has an arm reaching down toward the front of Professor Schteinberg’s trousers. While Schteinberg holds his pants waistband down, exposing his private parts, Scher reaches over to grasp Schteinberg’s penis. Australia, meet the new ambassador.)

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Caspian on the Cusp? Puzzling reports of death of Georgia PM by Edward Teague

4 February 2005— The New Dark Age

NOTICEABLE COOPERATION

Robert Kocharyan has today received the delegation headed by Moscow Mayor Yuri Lujkov. President expressed satisfaction with the Armenian-Russian cooperation. Moscow Mayor said that he was impressed by the constructive changes made in Yerevan. During the meeting the parts discussed the potential of increasing export-import by running the huge Armenian centre of wholesale trade, which will be built in Moscow. Threat of Instability Continues in Georgia

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No Sleepy Times Down South By Edward Teague

17 October 2004 — The New Dark Age

Roger (Rogelio) Pardo-Maurer IV is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and reports to Rumsfeld. Graduate in History from Yale and Economics from Cambridge (England), he contributed to 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States. Pardo-Maurer also served in combat with the 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

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Way Down South of the Border…By Edward Teague

16 October 2004 — The New Dark Age

The Commander in Chief of SOUTHCOM is responsible for all U.S. military activities in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and waters south of Mexico. North to south the distance is 7,000 miles, and from east to west more than 3,000 miles. Brazil is larger than the continental United States; Peru is three times the size of California. There are 32 sovereign nations in this theatre or Area of responsibility (AOR). SOUTHCOM had clearly derived advantages from a forward presence in Latin America over the years with U.S. military facilities in Panama and in Honduras. Until recently, these U.S. bases in Panama funnelled critical support to regional counter drug efforts (Drugs headed for the U.S. from South America pass through a 6 million square mile transit zone, roughly the size of the continental U.S), humanitarian operations, military-to-military contacts, and defence of the Panama Canal.

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A short, sharp shock by Edward Teague

13 July 2004 — The New Dark Age

T[ony] B[lair] is suffering from what we doctors called a blue funk. This is a common condition in ex-public schoolboys which arises when the patient exhibits the desire to please all who they meet, (on a random basis, as say, in the nearest bus queue, hall full of schoolchildren, mothers, wives of WTC victims, etc.,) and will listen. Naturally this condition results in a certain linguistic difficulties, such as suggesting black is white, or conversely white is black or maybe dark grey, or even at a stretch a sort of purply mauvy colour. This results in a slightly unclear and often unique view of the world, that the world seems increasingly incapable of sharing. These, what we doctors call dystopic visions, are not uncommon in 50 year old Prime Ministers who keep ditching their supporters and close friends in a seemingly relentless pursuit of what they regard and we doctors describe as divine power and Messianic leadership.

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Bend Over Infidel! By Edward Teague

22 March 2004 — The New Dark Age

First an apology. I suggested as background reading GK Chesterton’s “White Horse Inn”, I got confused between “The Flying Inn” and “the Ballad of the White Horse”.

I meant “The Flying Inn”, published in 1914 when Mohammedism or the Islamic Faith was barely known as a living faith in the UK – indeed its acceptance has only just been recognised by Eton who are reported today to have just employed their first imam.

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