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... his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser for Jewish charities. Levy was 'dazzled by Blair's drive and religious commitment' and the two men became friends. (4) A month later the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, and Blair won the leadership election contest with Gordon Brown- in some accounts with financial assistance from Levy. (5) All accounts are agreed that Michael Levy then set about raising money- the figure of £7 million is widely quoted- for the personal use of his new 'friend', Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party. The big early contributors to the 'blind trust ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-09.htm
... who bribed local politicians and officials to obtain contracts. Much of this was said to have taken place in the North East. Twenty-five years later a number of commentators have remarked on the influence and power in the Blair government wielded by MPs representing seats in the North East: Blair himself, Peter Mandelson, Stephen Byers Alan Milburn, Nick Brown, Hilary Armstrong, Marjorie( 'Mo') Mowlam and David Miliband being good examples. There would seem to be some connections here that might be worth tracing or making between the current Labour Party leadership and the power brokers in this part of the UK. Beginnings The birth of the Labour movement in the North East can be ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 39 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-38.htm
... prices and output.' (emphasis added) This is the heart of it on this side of the Atlantic. Economic policy thinking between the years between 1979 and 1997, when New Labour took office, had been dominated by the fear of inflation getting out of control as it did between 1972 and 1976. How many times did Gordon Brown boast of stability (meaning price stability, of course) during his time as chancellor? Twenty five years after the events of the mid 1970s Brown still felt it necess-ary to demonstrate over and over again that Labour would not be the party of inflation. (As if Labour had caused the inflation in the 1970s!) The Monetary ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-14.htm
... 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, 900 people from Britain- management and unions- went on trips to the United States to see the equivalent of 'Potemkin villages'.(2) Hundreds of trade ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-05.htm
35. Demos [Lobster #45 (Summer 2003)]
... that he joined the British American Project (BAP) in 1996. In the 1980s Mulgan was in Comedia which (with Roger Liddle's Pieda), discreetly advised city administrations, spreading a politicised cultural 'redevelopment' purge of 'old-fashioned' left-wing people in positions of power in an effort to 'modernise'. From 1990-92 Mulgan was special adviser to Gordon Brown when he was shadowing the Department of Trade and Industry, and became 'the Clinton campaign's link to Labour, which involved lots of telephone calls with the Americans- mainly advising them how not to repeat our mistakes.'(3) Demos aimed to transpose the mishmash of Marxism Today's 'fetishised' Thatcherism into Labour policy. Mulgan was part ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-21.htm
... of the ICFTU, participated in 'a large conference organised to discuss the economic and cultural situation of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe' by the European Movement in January, in Brussels.(21) Also early in 1964, F. Bialas, the President of the ICFTUE, and T. Philippovich, the Secretary, met Irving Brown for a discussion of the activities of ICFTUE and examination of various aspects of the struggle of the 'free' trade union movement against 'the Communist dictators'.(22) Irving Brown was the American Federation of Labor (AFL) representative in Europe for many years following the Second World War, and was, in the words of Philip ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-03.htm
... you were brilliant. Thank you.’ In 'The Price of Spin', David Charter and Sam Coates, The Times, 25 April 2006. Page 36 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 1986. Aquino ran when her husband – Marcos' political rival – was murdered at Manila airport on his return to challenge the president.1 4 SMG sent Mark Malloch Brown, a journalist with a South African background who had worked for The Economist.1 5 Malloch Brown developed what SMG called a 'backboard shot': if one can't feed a story to state-controlled media, play it off the international media, knowing the local press will feel honour bound to report the coverage. 'Our one access to daylight was the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-033.pdf
... All of these media outlets have steadfastly defended the lone nut scenario over the decades. If Posner asserts that the public hasn't had a chance to hear the Warren Commission's side of the story, he is (as Dave Letterman might say) just plain goofy. False Quotation Syndrome He may be worse than that. Researchers Harold Weisberg and Walt Brown, as well as medical expert Dr. Gary Aguilar, have been double-checking Posner's claimed interview subjects. Apparently, the Warren Commission's foremost apologist has seriously misrepresented some of those he supposedly interviewed. For example: Posner testified to the Conyers Committee on November 17, 1993, that he interviewed JFK's autopsists, Doctors James Humes and J. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-05.htm
... behind this organisation. Eventually he admitted it was the TUC. George Gibson was quick to add that the TUC was not officially involved: 'It is a private organisation of a few individuals, 6 or 7 of whom were members of the TUC General Council.' (21) These included the Treasurer of Freedom and Democracy Trust, John Brown, and the chief organiser, Tom O'Brien. Brown was ex-General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation, while O'Brien was General Secretary of NATKE (Theatrical and Kine Employees), a Labour MP and a member of the TUC's International Committee. Although the names of the other TUC members present have never been revealed, it is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-01.htm
... are respectable aspects of 'our way of life', along with the altruistic decency of many defending it, including the spooks. Naively, some – including me – pinned hopes of capitalism's reform, which underpins our society and partially its reputation, on what became known as 'corporate social responsibility'. This crutch was finally buried by BP's Lord Browne in a fascinating but little noticed speech earlier this year.( [5]) With his eye fixed on the far horizon (China ?) he was quoted as saying: 'We do not have stakeholders; we do not have corporate social responsibility; we simply have mutual advantage.... His comments have specific meaning ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-34.htm
