Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men with a plausible, unstuffy manner and a promise of managerial competence.’ Close to […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Minister without Portfolio from 1997 until 1998, when he became Trade and Industry Secretary, acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome. Despite opposition from most of the Cabinet, Blair decided that the project would go ahead. (Carrell 2000) The Millennium Dome was granted £400m of lottery money, and British Sky Broadcasting were among an array […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] a normal life.’ Sweet FA A rather lower level of punishment came the same week for Lord Triesman, the former New Labour Foreign Office minister under Tony Blair. The ex-communist multimillionaire, a close friend of New Labour fundraiser Lord Levy, and the party’s general secretary between 2001-3, had been appointed chairman of the Football […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has always been on Murdoch’s close relationship first with Thatcher and then with Blair and Brown. What McKnight brings out is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch’s affection. While he […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] stated openly at the time. Instead Neil Kinnock tried to get the paper changed on the q.t.. He sent a delegation of Eatwell, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair – an early sighting of the Brown-Blair tandem – to see Gould the day before his committee’s document was going to the printer.9 Gould was: extremely […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] in the same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Iran Superficially, David Cameron’s commitment to war with Iran, in 2012, looks like a carbon copy of Tony Blair’s commitment to war with Iraq in 2003. For Blair, war with Iraq was payback for US and corporate support (e.g. from Rupert Murdoch and the City of London) for his hijacking of the Labour Party […]