Weapons of Mass Deception and Regime Unchanged

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] the absence of evidence of the Iraqi regime’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, to the distress of the professional diplomats and most of their intelligence services, the Bush- Blair ‘allies’ used dodgy information from defectors, selectively edited what other information they had, or simply made it up as part of the ‘perception management’ of their […]

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Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined the City’s Golden Decade

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] lives. Their world was one of good schools, private medicine, domestic help and the best holidays money could buy.’ And the influential New Labour MPs around Tony Blair and Brown ranged from those like Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper and Ruth Kelly whose City knowledge was largely journalistic, to Peter Mandelson, with close friends in […]

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Smearing Robert Henderson

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] groups. I have deleted Henderson’s address, phone number and the url of the website concerned. From: (frankie_number_1) Robert Henderson, the self-styled nemesis of Tony and Cherie Blair is a pedophile (sic). Click on the url below to see one of the dozens of indecent photos of children he is circulating. He has also […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] such thing at all.’ But the major media – there or here – won’t go that far yet. Bits of it may know that the Bush and Blair administrations have run full-scale disinformation campaigns around the war but they apparently cannot acknowledge it. That was Borger on the 4th. On the 7th the wind […]

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PR, espionage and language

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] a new dominion: moral secular authority that did not segmentalise, over the vast unconquered empire of a zillion minds. All this potential was trashed when Prime Minister Blair, and the political cadre alongside him, turned parts of this country’s state machine into a badly fitting condom for America’s dick. Against this background, the country’s […]

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Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] awarded, without competition, a £32m contract to produce smallpox vaccine. Drayson donated £100,000 to Labour and was one of a small group of businessmen to meet Mr Blair in Downing Street for breakfast in 2001. Britain’s biggest arms deal in history was signed with Saudi Arabia six years into ex-policeman Ray Smith’s campaign to […]

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Parafinance: Enron and drilling for red ink

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] in promoting PFI (Private Finance Initiative) as the solution to the problem of squaring the provision of public services with low levels of taxation. Before 1996, Tony Blair had consistently ridiculed the notion that PFI could be a magic formula that would cut costs and improve services at the same time. The moribund state […]

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Pretexts

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] have argued that his response to the Tonkin ‘incident’ was merely an act of self defence permitted under UN Charter Chapter Seven Article 51. Perhaps it was Blair who pointed out to Bush that his war may have been illegal without UN approval, and that a delay would be needed to create the impression […]

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The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] or acknowledged he got that one wrong? No. Is Ware’s change of line and the state’s change of line a coincidence? A sheltered life Fueled by the Blair faction’s determination to avoid reality, we are living through a period of unprecedented bullshit; Orwellian hardly describes it. And it is creeping in everywhere. Tony Frewin […]

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Empire’s Workshop

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] is needed before we come to settled views on international affairs. Notes 1 Kingsley Martin, Harold Laski, London: Gollancz, 1953) 2 The core of the Bush ( Blair) doctrine is the free market. Grandin comments: ‘Call it market polygamy, whereby the US can have multiple partners but each of the partners must be subordinate […]

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