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... New Labour. When Peter Oborne wrote of the political class (Lobsters passim) being remote from the rest of us he couldn't have even guessed of the legal lengths this power couple would go to prevent even modest journalistic inquiry and disclosure. At the time of the awards Marr was using his Sunday morning BBC show to press LibDem leader Nick Clegg for details of his private life. The other award given to Marr by the Broadcasting Press Guild in April was in recognition of his powers of discovery for his documentary series History of Modern Britain. The Westminster village The Marr-Ashleys are not the only couple to prosper in the small but influential political circle around Westminster in the New Labour years ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-18.htm
... 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, £8.99 (UK) Tom Easton It's too early to say much about the Lib-Con government, but this collection tells us a lot about the regime that preceded it 187 Summer 2010 and, thus, partly why Nick Clegg and David Cameron are now sitting in No 10. Between them they also indicate why The Guardian and The Observer, home to the authors of two of the books under review, are now in similar dire straits to the New Labour project they adopted so enthusiastically long before it received its baptismal name under Tony Blair's leadership in 1994. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-187.pdf
... ' Talking like that in the rabid climate in the US at the time took some courage- and a safe seat! Good news! Or bad....If you thought the secret state only used its techniques against the radical left, take heart! The Evening Standard Diary 13 June 2001 reported that the diaries of Private Lee Clegg, convicted for the murder of two joy riders in Northern Ireland, and a minor cause célèbre for the right and the British Army, disappeared in the mail despite being sent by registered special delivery. One the other hand, please note that not even registered special delivery is spook-proof. Does disinformation work? It does with some journalists ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-26.htm
... - left, social democracy of its sister parties in Europe, and to recast it instead as a free market, centre-right party with a few 'left' trimmings. It is known, for instance, that even if Brown had been re-elected in 2010 he would have pursued a programme of budget cuts not dissimilar to those adopted by Cameron and Clegg, but would have spread them out over a 49 Winter 2010 longer period of time. In this scenario what does the Labour Party stand for?24 Politics as patronage One of the oddities of contemporary UK politics is how much it resembles the way business was transacted in the 18th century. A system has developed where patronage and privilege ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... who ought to be corporate British patriots to get away with licensed treason. The British Airports Authority (BAA) was an identity. It should not have been sold to Spaniards who have no national interest in promoting London's Heathrow as a gateway to Britain. See Private Eye 27 September 2007. It is possible the intelligence reform highlighted by Nick Clegg MP has been stood down. He was quoted in The Times 11 September 2007 with a plan 'which would mean a combined anti-terrorism intelligence force, answerable to the Home Secretary, freeing SIS to continue with its core functions, answerable to the Foreign Secretary'. This would avoid a 'wholesale take-over of MI6 priorities by MI5-led anti-terrorism operations, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-14.htm
