Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of it, involves complicated work […]
[PDF file]: […] out of print’. Secondhand copies can be found on AbeBooks, Thriftbooks and eBay 25 26 or 27 9 money and high-level contacts. Had we access to internal Labour Party emails, I’m sure a similarly intricate picture could be produced – though hopefully there would be no use of fake social media accounts. Of the […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Broken Vows Tony Blair the Tragedy of Power Tom Bower London: Faber and Faber, 2016, £20, h/b Tony McWalter, a Labour MP and former philosophy lecturer, rose at Prime Minister’s Questions on 28 February 2002 and asked the following question: ‘Since my Right Honourable friend is sometimes subject to rather unflattering or even malevolent […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] was enthusiastically embraced. Instead of rolling back the Thatcherite assault on the working class and the welfare state, they proceeded to consolidate it. This was what New Labour was all about. Certainly Brown made an original contribution to their partnership. It was he who recognised that the super rich could be persuaded to tolerate […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] from Glasgow was Sarah Smith, the former Channel 4 News Washington correspondent, who is the sister-in-law of Robertson’s son Malcolm. Sarah is the oldest daughter of former Labour leader John Smith. The Robertson family were out in force with leading Labour lights in Scotland for Sarah’s own wedding in 2007 to US-born former soldier […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]