Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] link with the Americans. Here is the late Hugo Young’s notes on a conversation with the late Robin Cook, when Cook was foreign secretary in the first Blair administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
The Kent and Sussex Courier is the archetypal regional conservative daily. It reflects an area that returns Conservative candidates for Parliament and Council like Alabamans would return ‘yellow dog’ Democrats. One recent police raid in ‘the war on terror’ was on an Islamic school, Jameah Islamiya, in Crowborough, East Sussex.()It is possible that the authorities’ […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] be mobilised by the media, the way it was in 1924 and 1979, and Labour’s had 80 years to work out how to stop them doing it. Blair, of course, prefers joining them to beating them. From Phil Edwards I expected my review of Russ Kick’s collection You are being lied to in Lobster […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
Votescam (again) Reading the papers and listening to the radio in the days immediately after Bush’s election victory brought home what a parallel universe we – readers of magazines like Lobster – are living in. Here we had an enormous election surprise: despite many of the pre-election polls in the last few days of the […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Ed. Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox – i.e. secret – diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
Down Under David Lange may have come and gone and the New Zealand Labour Party may have blazed a rightwards trail for Tony Blair et al to follow, but the New Zealand anti-military, anti-spook campaigns continue. The latest journal to document the activities of the spooks and military in that part of the Pacific […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] the British economy to make it fit for EEC entry. In Heath’s day the major co-conspirator in the project was the Cabinet Secretary Sir William Armstrong. With Blair it was his chief media wallah, Alistair Campbell. Thus the world has changed. Casualties So, after two reports by noble Lords and thousands of critical column […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
From Thatcher to the Third Way: think-tanks, intellectuals and the Blair project Robert Carl Blank Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89821-277-7 This illustrates the hazards of Amazon’s ‘search inside the book’ feature: I read an interesting couple of pages of this and bought it for about $30 and it isn’t worth the money. This is […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Waking up the incredible economic, political and social illusions of the Blair legacy Larry Elliot and Dan Atkinson London: Constable, 2007, p/b, £7.99 This appeared just as the last issue of Lobster was going to print and has been widely reviewed since then. Extracts were published in The Guardian and The Mail on […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Movement and his former allies, but in the words of his former wife Margaret, has sold his soul to the devil. Never mind, that ghastly conservative creep Blair tells us we should be proud of our MI6 boys and girls for they give us a cutting edge over the rest of the world. Has […]