Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Dan Briody John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, 2004, £16.99 (hb) The Halliburton Agenda provides a fascinating insight into the American military-industrial complex though there seems little point in discussing the actual content of the book: the activities of Halliburton, its subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root, or its infamous CEO, the vice-president of the United […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] of the ERT to EU decision-making structures’. Sir David Simon is now installed in Whitehall as the Minister for Trade and Competitiveness in Europe. So when the Blair government begins telling us that wages are too high in Britain, you will know from whom it is coming. Nexus backwards says Suxen! Nexus claims to […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] nationalist insurgency by Sunnis and Shias and an Islamist government in Baghdad, run by allies of Iran, the Guardian has learned. None of Whitehall’s “Arabists” warned Tony Blair of the difficulties which have plagued the occupation. The revelation undermines the British claim that it was US myopia which was to blame for the failure […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] book, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers (reviewed in Lobster 49), which was apparently dropped by the publisher. The key section is this, from an unnamed MI5 officer: ‘ Blair was recruited early on in his career, around the time he stood in the Beaconsfield by-election in 1982. He was just the sort of agent MI5 […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] to Washington this summer seeking to prevent the extradition of the NatWest Three, caught in the long shadow of Enron. The old friend of Tony and Cherie Blair was a young barrister when she was recruited to the Atlanticist freemasonry in 1987. BAP was not just a rite of passage for Baroness Scotland. She […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] 1983 and in 1993 at Davos (with the printing unions crushed) indicated he might support Labour in the future. This led to the courtship of Murdoch by Blair, the hijacking of the Labour Party in 1995 and its subsequent fawning over Murdoch even as it has cut the BBC’s budget in real terms. Dorril […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] employment, before a safe Labour seat and a parliamentary career, to Roy (now Lord) Hattersley. Lord Cashpoint’s memory A Foreign Office colleague of McShane and Foulkes under Blair was Michael Levy whose memoirs attacking Blair, Gordon Brown and the state of the Labour Party were serialised in The Mail on Sunday just before the […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] in the Labour Party who think Brown is a lefty! Guff central During his last appearance at the House of Commons liaison committee on June 18, Tony Blair declared that democracy and freedom are ‘universal values of the human spirit and always will be.’ Even if I knew what ‘the human spirit’ meant, this […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] state players can sometimes be restored to brand strength if there is evidence of exceptional post-failure leadership or national reputation overall remains strong. Under former Prime Minister Blair, prior to the war, this was certainly the case. Many took pride in Britain’s image – established by SIS as much as any other organisation – […]
