The View from the Bridge

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[…] the economy than Labour.43 The lack of confidence in Labour is apparently the result of the economic crash of 2007/8. But the then NuLab government of Gordon Brown was following Conservative polices at the time of the crash: the market is magic, we need no regulation of the City and the domestic manufacturing economy […]

Friends of Israel

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[PDF file]: […] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and the two men became friends.5 A month later the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, and Blair won the leadership election contest with Gordon Brown – in some accounts with financial 1 See for example . 2 See the profile of Michael Levy in the Daily Express 26 June 2000. 3 […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

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[…] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] High-Living Baker Boy Scandalizes the Capital’, p. 32. It referred to her as ‘the German call girl’. 48 Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997), pp. 387-390. the Soviet embassy.49 To Hoover, this intelligence recalled the sensational Profumo affair then grabbing headlines in Great Britain. The British scandal eventually prompted […]

Broken Vows: Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] received view of New Labour’s rush to the till-deathdo-us-part section of those vows has at its core the perpetual 1 Sunday Telegraph 3 March 2002 acrimony between Brown and Blair, which paralysed decisionmaking and split the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party, and the Civil Service. Of course there is ample evidence to support that […]

My Turn: Hillary Clinton targets the presidency by Doug Henwood

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the poor and the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/ Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes […]

Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Bernard Connolly, The Rotten Heart of Europe (London: Faber and Faber, 1995) John Laughland, The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European idea (London: Little and Brown, 1997) Christopher Booker and Richard North, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) 6 5 globalisation. Most recently […]

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[…] at or . Author interview at or . 5 3 The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.6 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]

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