Lobster Issue 47: Contents

👤 Robin Ramsay  

Parish Notices

Thanks to: Rom, Jane Affleck, Jeff Bale, Mal Function, Robin Whittaker, Chris Tame, Tom Easton (and probably other people I have forgotten), for information.

Once again there is a lot in this issue about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq. For what it is worth it seems to me that it is much more important for the world that America (and its British flunkies) get their arses kicked than it is that Bin Laden and other Islamic fundamentalists have a ‘victory’ in Iraq. The world can handle the likes of Bin Laden a lot more easily than it can a USA, in the grip of dim, fundamentalist Christian nutters, armed to the teeth and bent on ‘full spectrum dominance’.

As the text for this issue was being finished, the British media was full of stories about disillusion with Tony Blair and New Labour. Just this once I’ll say it: Lobster – that is this writer and other contributors – never believed a word of it and the analyses of ‘New Labour’ in issue 33, published a couple of months after Blair’s election victory in 1997, remain cogent today. As Gore Vidal said, the best three words in the English language are: told you so. Not that it was any big trick seeing through this particular bunch of careerist lightweights. Whether or not you agreed with their politics, the likes of Jim Callaghan, Denis Healey, Roy Hattersley and Roy Jenkins now appear as giants.

Robin Ramsay

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