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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become 'contaminated' by the interest in it taken by the US Right.(1) I had never thought of it as that, but 'contamination' is exactly right. Peters' naming of this issue was very useful, for ideological or political 'contamination' is at the heart of several of the areas in which Lobster has been interested in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 429 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last| Contents| Next Issue 51 The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir Tim Pendry In March of this year, there was a major scandal over party funding in the United Kingdom. To some of us, this was an accident waiting to happen. In a country with many millions of voters who are allowed to exercise that vote only once every four or five years, relatively small numbers of people belong to those two or three political parties whose struggles eventually decide which person will eventually hold the power of patronage in the State, give orders to civil servants and have a finger perched precariously over a nuclear ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 417 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 New Labour Notes Ah, the wonderful private sector In 'Blair anti-corruption plan weakened by British firms' in The Independent 2 September 2002, Geoffrey Lean reported: 'Britain has the world's most corrupt companies, and some of the weakest legislation among industrialised countries for dealing with them....Half of the 70 companies identified by the World Bank as so corrupt that it has decided never to do business with them are based in Britain.' Lean commented: 'The revelation undermines a voluntary initiative to tackle corruption to be unveiled by Tony Blair in Johannesburg today as one of his main contributions to the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 326 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-16.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s David Osler All four of Tony Blair's new political appointees at the Ministry of Defence are part of Labour's Atlanticist network. Three of them, George Robertson, Lord John Gilbert and John Speller, are members of two interrelated bodies, the Atlantic Council and its labour movement wing, the Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding (TUCETU). The fourth, Dr John Reid, has spoken at TUCETU conferences. Peter Mandelson, the most important back-stage player in British politics, has written a pamphlet ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 312 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-04.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 37 New Labour Notes John Smith: Old Labour's lost leader? In non-New Labour Labour Party circles the late John Smith is remembered with great reverence.(1) Quite what this is based on escapes me. All I can identify is his dislike of Peter Mandelson: Smith kept him at bay therefore Smith was a good man seems to be the argument. But John Smith was the man under whose influence the Labour Party began the sorry road it is now on when he decided to give up the entire economic game and do what the City told him; the man who, with ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 303 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-10.htm
... house as soon as possible. It would have been interesting to have heard about how the values of that stratum of society at that time affected Livingstone and subsequently contributed to his views but this is not attempted by Hosken. This is a great shame as there are signs from other sources that Ken himself was politically active prior to joining the Labour Party. It was recently reported that Sir Christopher Gent, currently Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, said that Livingstone had been an Executive Member of the Young Conservatives, in south London, in the 1960s.(5) Presumably this was pre-1966, the year that Livingstone took a lengthy trip around Africa. In 1984 John Carvel casually mentioned that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 301 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-11.htm
... the publication of a couple of ministerial diaries and some memoirs trickling into the public domain within 2-3 years of its demise. Today any change of administration is followed immediately by a slew of books, as its participants cash in with lucrative publishing deals and get their version of history into print as quickly as possible. Thus has the demise of Labour in May 2010 been marked. The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, stating-the-obvious-at-all- times tales of Peter Mandelson; the fantastic, optimistic and daytime TV-oriented (and thus immensely popular) narrative of Tony Blair; Jonathan Powell's treatise on Machiavellianism; and the diarised compendium of sad little stories from Chris Mullin, as he crept ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 296 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last| Contents| Next Issue 54 New Labour news Robin Ramsay BERR In a profile of John Hutton, the new Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Hutton said that Labour 'is the natural party of business',(1) another benchmark (or, in Corinne Souza country, 'rebranding') in the shift from old to New Labour. For it was Harold Wilson's boast that he had made Labour 'the natural party of government'. The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) used to be the Department for Trade and Industry, a name which really had to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 286 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-07.htm
... on more recent events. Both draw on intelligence sources and a high proportion – half the Anti-Semitism collection – comes from Jewish writers. Lucas reaches back furthest with his evaluation of George Orwell but also brings us nearest to the present with his critique of the British newspaper columnists who supported the Iraq invasion. George Galloway MP, expelled from the Labour Party after allegations about his closeness to the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, brings together elements of the other three in a stinging criticism of Tony Blair and the politics of New Labour. By way of critical summary and review, I will attempt to outline how New Labour fits into the bigger picture of transition from Cold War to the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 273 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-03.htm
... Clandestine Caucus) Special Issue Last| Contents| Next The Clandestine Caucus Part 2 Atlantic Crossings The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the Campaign for Democratic Socialism and the CIA As well as the programmes to inculcate American notions of free market economics and union-management relations- and good feelings about America- there were operations aimed at the wider public and the Labour Party. Large numbers of Labour MPs and trade unionists were paid to visit the United States. Among the Gaitskellite grouping in the Parliamentary party, Gaitskell, George Brown, Anthony Crosland and Douglas Jay all made visits.(1) Under the umbrella of just one minor aspect of the Marshall Plan, the Anglo-American Council on Productivity, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 268 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-05.htm
