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... was reported by the BBC in 1997 that Ward helped lubricate Ecclestone's controversial £1m donation to New Labour.6 Geldof drew much media support from The Independent in his BBC battle, in particular from Paul Vallely. The paper's readers were not told that Vallely, created a Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the Tony Blair premiership, was ghost writer of the Geldof autobiography Is That It? No critical words about the multimillionaire ex- Boomtown Rat in Private Eye either: his Ten Alps media conglomerate runs the Eye's advertising. Friends in the North East W ard's motor racing work brings him into close and regular contact with Alan Donnelly, the man to whom ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-004.pdf
... regulate lest they unplug their computers and take them elsewhere. And fifthly, and this may now be the most important factor of all, British state personnel and politicians individually benefit from the link with the Americans. Here is the late Hugo Young's notes on a conversation with the late Robin Cook, when Cook was foreign secretary in the first Blair administration. (2 ) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. 'Because of the Ministry of Defence's fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a great deal of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-07.htm
... the UK, have been slipping towards a police state. The evidence for true tyranny in either country is weak. However, since it came to power in 1997, it might be reasonably argued(1 ) that New Labour has brought the United Kingdom one third of the way towards a 'tyranny' if we look closely at what the Blair Government has actually done since 2001 and then measure it against Wolf's ten steps to dictatorship.(2 ) In the strange amalgam of New Labour and state that emerged in 1997, one fundamental political purpose has been to ensure that a culture of security can emerge that can match its continental counterparts in powers and tools. The European project ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-17.htm
... ). Result? Monkeys continue to inject regularly. Proven: cannabis is as addictive as cocaine. Now contrast: put BBC Radio 4 staff in office. Supply with votes for the Today programme's 'Man of the Year' award. Allow researchers to count votes. Choke off supply of spontaneous votes with a prompted supply of votes for Tony Blair. BBC staff continue to count. Proven: Tony Blair is Man of the Year, 1996 - or would have been, had this delightful scam not been discovered and the BBC suspended voting. (1 ) Jules Hurry, Labour party member and former civil servant from the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food, had signed a letter ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-10.htm
... that of parliamentary researcher to Margaret Hodge, herself a former Islington councillor. A brief spell running the Fabian Society preceded his own election to Parliament and his early promotion to a ministerial salary. Twigg's old friend at the FPC, Lord Levy, has announced his commitment to raising money for the Labour Party will end with the retirement of Tony Blair from No 10. This will come as small surprise to Lobster readers who will recall that Levy met Blair in 1994 through the good offices of the Israeli embassy in London. Levy was recently quoted by the Jewish Chronicle as saying: 'I have been with him since he became leader and I will be at his side until the end ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-11.htm
... melt-down of 2008 which caused the deficit problem. The deficit – and he means the gap between government spending and government income, not the trade deficit or the total national debt – was rising before 2008 and is caused by UK taxes being too low. But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes. While in office Blair, Brown and Balls encouraged the delusion that the UK could have American levels of taxation and EU levels of public services. Apologising for that and the NuLab abandonment of manufacturing in favour of 'the knowledge economy' would be the beginning of adult politics. This stuff Balls is giving us is just baby talk. Addendum: open mouth, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 18 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... consequences for democracy. At no time in Preston's review does he declare an interest – his close friendship over 30 years with his protégé Alton – or the way that this Observer editor used his position and his closeness to key people in New Labour to keep his readers in the dark over matters of peace and war and much else under the Blair premiership. Preston practises deception by omission as well as by lying. Network of influence It will take a longer piece than this to trace the network of influence over liberal opinion developed by The Guardian and The Observer in the postwar world, but it's urgent work long overdue given the parlous state of our democracy today. Preston was the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-30.htm
98. Briefly [Lobster #36 (Winter 1998/9)]
... do. Bridging the two sections is a discussion between some former members of the Number 10 Policy Unit. This is a useful little volume with some interesting information and snippets of political gossip; but at 29.50 for 200 pages? 1 See the review of his Thinking the Unthinkable in Lobster 28 p. 33. From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 ed. Nick Tiratsoo Phoenix (Orion), London,1997, 7.99 pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, is worth noting for the final three in which Kenneth O. Morgan on Wilson, editor Tiratsoo on the 1970s and Paul Hirst ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-19.htm
... with a UN mandate; an effort to create the conditions for peace in the region; or as an over-ambitious attempt to piggy-back a bigger power and rebuild a hard power presence in an important strategic zone. Perhaps a bit of all three. Following the public humiliation of the Royal Navy by Iran and the post-Blair commitment to withdrawal from Iraq, the British presence East of Suez increasingly looks like hubris exercised by a government that, in its previous incarnation, had neither the intelligence nor planning resources, let alone materiel, to sustain its ambitions – whether humanitarian or geostrategic. Atlanticism rises or falls to the degree that the US can manage its own ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-03.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-treasure-islands.pdf
