Martin Wolf on Noreena Hertz

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Thu Aug 30 07:11:07 PDT 2001


Ian Murray:
> [Amongst the other things corporations buy and sell...]
>
> New Labour: out with the red rose and in with the Big Mac
>
> Documents show how party is auctioning sponsor slots at conference
>
> Kevin Maguire
> Thursday August 30, 2001
> The Guardian
>
> Tony Blair last night triggered a potentially damaging row over
> Labour's increasingly close links with big corporations after it
> emerged that he is to attend a £15,000 reception at the party's annual
> conference paid for by the burger chain McDonald's. ...

All together now:

"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike.

No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to

pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible

to say which was which."



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