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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 Faking it Poverty Tony Blair promised to eradicate child poverty in the UK. A couple of articles, 'Redefining poverty will lead to ridicule, ministers told' (The Independent 27 August 2002) and 'Poor definition confuses poverty' (The Daily Telegraph 27 August 2002) suggest that the government is thinking of 'eradicating' poverty by redefining it. Hospital waiting lists Reported in The Daily Telegraph, '" Manipulated" lists not helping NHS', on 18 September 2002, the Commons Public Accounts Committee reported that 'at least 20 hospitals managers and staff inappropriately manipulated their waiting list data "to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-18.htm
... Treasure Islands Tax havens and the men who stole the world Nicholas Shaxson London: the Bodley Head, 2011, £14.99, p/b 'Reading Treasure Islands I have realised that injustice is no perversion of the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it and cut its taxes. Cameron didn't have to assure it of anything: his party exists to turn its demands into public policy. Our ministers are not public servants. They work for the people who fund their parties, run the banks and own the newspapers, shielding them from their obligations to society, insulating them from democratic ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-treasure-islands.pdf
... to comprise the opposition. Indeed, for most of the decade, the 'pro' camp seemed to hold most of the cards and boast the better spokespeople. Major's Chancellor Kenneth Clarke could make a united Europe sound as British as roast beef and brown ale, Major's deputy Michael Heseltine gave it the aura of an exciting business enterprise and Tony Blair bestowed upon the project the glitter of a chic and fashionable new international club that Britain would be crazy not to join. The first task of the pro-Europeans was to get Britain to sign up for the euro. There seemed an air of inevitability about their eventual triumph. But three people played a key role in keeping Britain out of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 20 Sep 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-classless-society.pdf
... supervision. They are splendid chaps, doing a wonderful job. I can hear ISC chair, former Tory Minister of Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King saying that: 'splendid chaps doing a wonderful job.' Tom King, as they say, isn't the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer. This may explain why Mr Blair left him in the job when Labour won the election in 1997. The Labour Party's passivity in face of the secret state is a more complex phenomenon. Partly it is simply a reflection of wider passivity in the face of the state per se. The idea that the British state is a problem has never really been part of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-27.htm
... system a 'mangled wreck'. Speaking at Holyrood in support of it, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said: 'This is not a normal case. It's Scotland's biggest terrorist atrocity. These are serious questions raised by serious people, and the world is watching.’ But Mr Salmond, following the precedents of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, was adamant in his refusal: 'They're looking for an inquiry for the responsibility, ultimately, for Lockerbie. That touches on matters of huge international importance which would be beyond the ability of the Scottish inquiry to summon witnesses, compel evidence, etcetera.’ According to John Ashton's book, both men are right ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 07 Jun 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-lockerbie-1988.pdf
... advertising and marketing and its rise within a consumer economy, the politics of tobacco, and the legal trials of Big Tobacco versus The Law. It's an exhilarating book about a sordid and duplicitous 206 Summer 2010 industry that believes everything and everybody is fair game for subverting. Now, this may not be news to anyone aside from the Revd Blair,20 but to read the cumulative and ongoing evidence here is a sobering experience. Big Tobacco is Big Money and the industry soon learnt that there was no problem that couldn't be solved by throwing greenbacks at it. Brandt is a very engaging writer and his lucid prose is a joy to read even when he's discussing highly detailed analyses ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-206.pdf
... media analyst – illustrating Freud's connection to the financial sector. (Sanghera 2001) Freud's clients included Pepsi, KFC, Asda and Nike. (Harris 2008) Peter Mandelson, Minister without Portfolio from 1997 until 1998, when he became Trade and Industry Secretary, acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome. Despite opposition from most of the Cabinet, Blair decided that the project would go ahead. (Carrell 2000) The Millennium Dome was granted £400m of lottery money, and British Sky Broadcasting were among an array of corporate sponsors. (Carrell 2000) Prior to Mandelson's appointment as Secretary of State for the DTI, Freud allegedly set about galvanising support for him in the press, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-murdoch-rothschild.pdf
... strategy board includes Mandelson and Tony Blair's successor in the Sedgefield constituency, Phil Wilson MP.5 Mandelson's long-time associate, vice-chair of his Policy Network and frequent Guardian columnist, Patrick Diamond, is a co-opted board member. Former Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) chairman Stephen Twigg MP is president of Progress and the chair, John Woodcock MP, succeeded Blair loyalist John (now Lord) Hutton into the Barrow and Furness seat. Woodcock wrote the foreword to the LFI's Making the progressive case for Israel.6 Hunt is one of Progress' vice-chairs along with the post-May 8 figure widely touted as possible leader, the 4 <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3e8c-Blairite-Ghost-in-the- Machine# .VZZGvucyFE4> 5 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 29 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-tittle-tattle.pdf
99. Feedback [Lobster #44 (Winter 2002)]
... never caused by Labour voters switching to voting Tory, despite 23 years of outright lying about it by the media and the academics. There's a latent Tory vote out there that can be mobilised by the media, the way it was in 1924 and 1979, and Labour's had 80 years to work out how to stop them doing it. Blair, of course, prefers joining them to beating them. From Phil Edwards I expected my review of Russ Kick's collection You are being lied to in Lobster 42 to be fairly controversial, but I was startled by the vehemence with which Kick and Edward Herman attacked the review- and me personally- in Lobster 43. Unfortunately Kick and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-42.htm
... advisors and radical economic thinking was out. But what the Soviet Union's strategists used to refer to as 'the balance of forces' within the party meant that this could not be stated openly at the time. Instead Neil Kinnock tried to get the paper changed on the q.t.. He sent a delegation of Eatwell, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair – an early sighting of the Brown-Blair tandem – to see Gould the day before his committee's document was going to the printer.9 Gould was: 'extremely irritated at this last-minute démarche. I was not clear what Tony was doing there, since he was not a member of the relevant committee. Gordon and John had had every chance to make ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-two-goulds.pdf
