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[…] of antisemitism plaguing the party.’14 In short, the Starmer-led faction of the Labour Party has received significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as did the Blair faction twenty years ago.15 *new* The great churn After more than three years since its first edition, I was finally handed a copy of the wacky […]

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[…] “cancer” of antisemitism plaguing the party.’14 In short, the Starmer-led Labour Party receives significant funding from the Israel lobby in Britain, as was the case during the Blair years.15 *new* The great churn After more than three years since its first edition, I was finally handed a copy of the wacky British conspiracy newspaper […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the would be lobbyists by mentioning the £14k per month retainer. Cunningham, who organised the 1992 Labour general election campaign and served as a minister under Blair 1997-1999 (before being reshuffled to the back benches) was the subject of an enquiry by the House of Lords’ Committee for Privileges in 2008 about how, […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] battle, in particular from Paul Vallely. The paper’s readers were not told that Vallely, created a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the Tony Blair premiership, was ghost writer of the Geldof autobiography Is That It? No critical words about the multimillionaire exBoomtown Rat in Private Eye either: his Ten Alps […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] opposed by openness (good), the actual ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’ of the book reveal that Norton-Taylor is telling a slightly different story. Chief among the villains is Tony Blair. Blair’s refusal to openly admit his commitment to invading Iraq ensured British troops were sent to war unprepared. The lack of training, equipment and local intelligence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. 18 7 happens when you let […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 18 And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like Mrs […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] for example 11 Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms set for bonanza’, […]

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