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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] the boundary between analysis and advocacy, so be it. The stakes are high, and there is much work yet to do.’ Anthony Frewin 20 Remember this? ‘Tony Blair personally ordered an exemption for motor racing from a tobacco sponsorship ban after Labour received a secret £1m donation from Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss’ […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] pro-European Union wing, as well as in the predominantly proEU media, attempt to contaminate them with nationalism – and thus the right. Here is Prime Minister Tony Blair doing it, in his talk to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Leadership Conference, in Australia: ‘…the Labour government I hope to lead will be outward-looking, internationalist and […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] 1998 to 2001 and also on the board of the National Council for One Parent Families. In 1999 she was made a Labour peer by the Revd. Blair who had been introduced to her by her husband Peter Kellner, the former chairman and now president of YouGov.13 In June 2001 she became Parliamentary UnderSecretary […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] contest Rory Stewart has, quite wisely, sat on his hands and let our current PM make a predictable hash of things. I am distinctly reminded of Tony Blair and his position in the Labour Party – at least during the idyllic, pre-war criminal days. Blair was seen as a soft-right (within Labour) and Stewart […]