Tony Blair, Poptimist
When neoliberals went to war against the Labor Party’s historic socialist campaign anthem.
To sell Tony Blair’s New Labour to the middle class and the media, campaign gurus Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson looked to Bill Clinton’s successful campaigns in the United States. Clinton famously walked out at rallies to Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop.” If Blair wanted his own centrist earworm, Labour’s historic anthem, “The Red Flag,” clearly […]