Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the BBC, CNN or Al Jazeera to give the tape recordings an airing. (pp. 77-78) Why then was the Rwandan regime so liked in the West? Tony Blair praised Kagame as ‘a visionary’, while Bill Clinton actually described him as ‘one of the greatest leaders of our time’. (p. 389) A blind eye was […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] sold himself to the Parliamentary Labour Party as a man of vision, of farsighted and deep intellect and sought publicly to distance himself from the perception of Blair as a lightweight, focus group-driven politician. So as a ‘strong’ leader, should he follow his own instincts, or trust in the views of small groups of […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] to do to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the time of the crash: the market is magic, we need no regulation of the City and the domestic manufacturing economy can be ignored. Messrs Brown and Blair had persuaded themselves in the early 1990s that it was necessary to follow the neo-con (and Conservative Party) line on economic policy to get elected because […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] dealings with ‘the machine’. 1 2 Interview conducted at the Cafe Russell, London on 30 November 2017. He famously wrote a memo about the NHS to Tony Blair in 1998, telling the Prime Minister: ‘If you want a first-class service, you have to pay a firstclass fare – and we’re not doing it.’ What […]