Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] City’s failures to think into the future on such projects , the narrowness of the financial establishment, the “capitalist, inward-looking City-establishment”. There are obvious echoes here of Blair, leading the wrong party; and, like Heath, trying to drag the party along with him. But I didn’t get this to read yet another account of […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Halliburton). They should sort out the problem. Lloyd’s (Rio Tinto) prize-winning essay, ‘Right and Left to Right and Wrong’, reminisced about his days with the young Tony Blair expelling ‘the militants’ from the Hackney Labour Party. It also made great play of the massive shifts with the withdrawal of Clause Four: but how serious […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] a favour to a criminal. Inevitably, the riots took an incoherent and reactionary form, with the graffiti along the Shore Road now equating Peter Hain and Tony Blair with the IRA, and the racist targeting of a Chinese takeaway leading to the burning of Sammy Wilson’s DUP offices next door. While UVF supporters attacked […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] the SIS officer, now Baroness Ramsay, and Donald Dewar, I am informed, had a similar relationship with former MI5 D-G Stella Rimington.(1) The key people in the Blair faction are all securely integrated into the Anglo-American foreign policy system(2) and are no more likely to challenge the British secret state than they are to […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] without ever having to take responsibility for what they’ve said. Or not said. In a universe of anonymous sources, we’re increasingly informed by ‘creative’ writers like Jason Blair at the Times, Stephen Glass at the New Republic, Jack Kelly at USA Today, and Woodward’s own protégé at the Post, Janet Cooke. Not surprisingly, the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
I’m still interested in the origins of the invasion of Iraq, the why and the when. At one level this is banal. We know, originally from CBS reporter David Martin, that within hours of the 9/11 attacks Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeldt was ‘telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] snippets of political gossip; but at £29.50 for 200 pages? 1 See the review of his Thinking the Unthinkable in Lobster 28 p. 33. From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 ed. Nick Tiratsoo Phoenix (Orion), London,1997, £7.99 pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Spin-doctors (e.g Alastair Campbell) are propagandists. They are not public affairs strategists who prepare for all possible audiences/crises before they happen. The mistake made by Prime Minister Blair and his unelected advisers, including civil servants, was not anticipating that, following the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, rather than a spin-doctor, they needed (public […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] Mrs. Thatcher, which led to the progressive collapse of Labour as a radical, reforming party.(2) Mrs. Thatcher claimed legitimacy from the events of the 1970s; and the Blair faction have, in turn, accepted as legitimate much of what was done in her name. The Tory and Labour Thatcherites see the 1970s as a disaster […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] little less potent, and Greg Palast experienced quite a few of them when he brought his brand of clever, witty and vigorous exposure to bear on the Blair government in 1998. For detailing the corruption at the heart of New Labour in his Lobbygate reports in The Observer (see Lobsters 36 and 38), Palast […]
