Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 Lindsey Jenkins, […]

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Lobster goes to the movies!

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] Armani-clad ‘blue skies thinking’ ex-head of the BBC renowned for his unfathomable managerial gobbledygook (regularly reproduced in the pages of Private Eye). His ennoblement by the Revd. Blair is widely seen as a result of his friendship with Peter Mandelson, a former colleague at London Weekend Television.Here’s a bit of Birt biog that may […]

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Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] office, came from Jewish businessmen. Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no […]

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America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] as for Britain? Very little mention is made of the UK having any role of influence on either US or Israeli-US policy. The authors positively discount Tony Blair playing any significant part one way or the other in either Middle East events or the Iraqi war. They do state, though, that Israel gets access […]

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The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soil us

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money – in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha – helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. “The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks’ involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one […]

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The Westminster Whistleblowers

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] to the newspapers to blow the whistle, or even to go to their union or professional association and begin proceedings against their loopy, tyrannical boss. The Thatcher/ Blair duo’s greatest achievement was getting home-ownership in Britain up to around 70%. There’s nothing like having to worry about mortgage payments to reduce the uppityness of […]

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George Orwell and the IRD

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] cit, pp. 124-130. Ibid, pp. 72-77. Orwell’s third way must not, of course, be confused with New Labour’s third way as advocated by Orwell’s conservative namesake, Tony Blair. New Labour’s third way is committed not to the socialist but to the capitalist transformation of British society. For Orwell as Tribune Socialist see Bernard Crick, […]

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Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] fabricated WMD claims as the ostensible causus belli. Reality though, returned to haunt the crippled Bush administration with a vengeance. And if Bush and Cheney (and Tony Blair) had remained true to the last in cheerleading Israel’s chaotic reinvasion of Lebanon of August 2006, plans for the most ambitious Israeli pre-emption yet – the […]

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At Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Chiefs of Britain’s Intelligence Agency, MI6

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] chapters are more interesting and, as befits a former Conservative MP, he has a serious go at the latest ‘C’, John Scarlett, for his relationship with the Blair government and the fiasco over Iraqi WMDs. He also drops some hints about blemishes on Scarlett’s career which can only have come from SIS personnel. The […]

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The Rape of Socialism

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] for him to have a sideways move, working for one of the Met’s suppliers. Interestingly, just like the policeman who fatally smashed the skull of London teacher Blair Peach at a demonstration, Harold Chalenor had previously belonged to the military’s blood-and-guts brigade, earning the sobriquet of ‘Tankie’ Chalenor. Donovan Pedelty also fails to deal […]

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