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[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

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[…] relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. Campbell replied: Think about what it would mean if he admitted he was wrong. It would overshadow everything he had ever […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Rudolf Hesses. Now we discover there were two ‘Sidney Gottliebs’. The first one – Sidney with an ‘i’ – was one of the brains behind the CIA’s ‘mind control’ experiments in the 1950s and 60s.26 The second one, discovered by Simon Matthews – Sydney with a ‘y’ – was a psychiatrist in the UK […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hesses. Now we discover there were two ‘Sidney Gottliebs’. The first one – Sidney with an ‘i’ – was one of the brains behind the CIA’s ‘mind control’ experiments in the 1950s and 60s.26 The second one, discovered by Simon Matthews – Sydney with a ‘y’ – was a psychiatrist in the UK […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] states, particularly Germany. Heath had been very impressed, when visiting Germany, by Willy Brandt’s regular round-table consultations with the unions and the German system of co-partnership; his mind began moving towards establishing a similar relationship in Britain by which the unions should be given an acknowledged role in the running of the economy.(13) Heath […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] no more use and dumped him, leaving Wyatt to lament into his tape-recorder that Murdoch ‘has behaved like a swine and a pig’) and so to my mind the look of this ‘meeting with conspirators’ is that the whole thing was orchestrated by Mr Murdoch himself. It’s the simplest explanation. It’s clear from this […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in Foreign Secretary William Hague’s speech to the House of Commons. He didn’t actually deny the central allegations: he said they were ‘baseless’, which, to the legal mind – and clever lawyers will have been over his text – is not the same thing as ‘false’. It was a classic non-denial denial. Secondly, he […]

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