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... . Formally that made it official party policy. Did anyone ever ment-ion it again? No, they did not. A year or so later Neil Kinnock lost his second general election, this time to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith's heart attack. And we got an end to the party's members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy making. I gave up on the Labour Party in 1992 with the arrival of John Smith as leader and my involvement declined from being branch secretary and local election agent to being just ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-27.htm
... This time, though, there was a comeback. Yeboah took Crofton to an Industrial Tribunal. It was the longest case of its type in British legal history.(14) Crofton lost. Yeboah won record damages. Yeboah then sued the BBC because of Ware's programme. The BBC immediately settled, paying Yeboah substantial damages. Of late Blair and some of his team have been making anxious noises about Labour not getting a good press from the UK media. Up until 1992, of course, Labour had a whole package of reforms and changes contemplated for the press and broadcasting-- based on the view that whilst we must have a free press, it should be operate ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-13.htm
... being sacrificed. The best estimate is that he had been involved in fifteen killings and as many unsuccessful attacks. For this he was sentenced to ten years in January 1992 and released two and a half years later, with a new identity. Davies's book raises very important issues at the centre of British operations in Ireland. Just as the Blair government has conceded a fresh inquiry into Bloody Sunday so we must demand an inquiry into official collusion with the loyalist murder squads. Of course, when examining cases like the Nelson case you confront two responses. The first is to deny the whole thing as paranoia, as conspiracy theory run mad. The second, as the evidence becomes ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-11.htm
... the world's expert on the life, times – and, yes, to some extent the corruption – of LBJ has had to avert his eyes, is very striking indeed. Leveson disappears Henderson Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.1 1 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity value, perhaps.) When the Leveson report was published Henderson checked the list of those who had made submissions and discovered that he was not on it. See the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 14 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... ; but in book form Foot's clear, simple writing style is very striking. The articles come from mainstream media- the Guardian, London Review of Books and Private Eye- and a selection from the Socialist Workers' Party's publications. The subject matter ranges from major pieces about Lockerbie and Colin Wallace, a collection of savage attacks on the Blair crew, through individual scandals (notably his brilliant assault on Jeffrey Archer in the Evening Standard and his account of the destruction of the Daily Mirror) to little pieces about Foot's hero, Shelley. There isn't a dud among them. Last| Contents| Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-19.htm
186. Sources [Lobster #40 (Winter 2000/1)]
... www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/ Still steamin'Steamshovel Press launched an improved Website earlier this year, under the catchy if barely intelligible slogan, 'All Conspiracy. No Theory'. www.steamshovelpress.com Presswise Presswise is a charity which primarily exists to represent the interests of those abused by the Press. Their Web site now contains details of the Robert Henderson/Blair Scandal. The details can be found by going from the Presswise Home Page (www.presswise.org.uk/) to either 'Mediation' and then 'complaining to regulators', or via 'Briefings' and 'data protection'. Kennedy and Europe In 1992 a three-day conference took place at the European University Institute (Florence) on the subject 'Kennedy and Europe' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-21.htm
... some post-war Labour Party leaders with MI6 officers appears to be becoming traditional. Hugh Gaitskell was a close friend of the philosopher and ex-MI6 officer, Sir Alfred 'Freddie' Ayer. Alan Petty (aka author 'Alan Judd') an ex-MI6 officer and member of MI6's secretariat- in effect, the Chief's private office- is a friend of Tony Blair. 'Judd' was briefly the motoring correspondent of the Spectator. In one of his early columns, he joked that in his previous occupation he'd had to changes cars often- so he was well-qualified for his current job. The self-advertising clever joke- look, Ma, no hands- is an MI6 speciality. The Hakluyt company name ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-22.htm
... How Labour was taken over by Capital Michael Barratt Brown Socialist Renewal, new series, no. 2, £5.00 Very useful and clearly written, this is a 70 page, perfect (glue) bound pamphlet, part commentary on and part supplement to George Monbiot's book The Captive State. It covers all the main agenda items: the Blair administration's obsession with big business; PFI spreading throughout the public sector; the government's Task Forces dominated by business personnel and the role of groups such as the European Business Round Table and the Transatlantic Business Dialogue. It is cheering to see the concerns of groups like European Corporate Observatory and individuals like Greg Palast, who pioneered much of this ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-39a.htm
... and a determination to bring them to the West's attention...He was killed while filming fierce fighting between Chechens and Russian troops. He believed that a lack of objective reporting in places like Chechnya left states such as Russia free to write their own account of complex and far-reaching conflicts.' Scott's death guarantees it. Doubtless, as Blair met with Putin in the latter's hunting lodge, 11 October 2002, the Russian President- his menu of demands in return for compliance with America-versus-Iraq in his hand- was given a free rein to deal with the Chechens as he pleases. He will now be able to do so without Roddy Scott's brave and objective scrutiny. Corinne Souza ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-32.htm
... Labour politics in that period; and Pearce has omitted too much, too obviously. Notes 1 Co-author of CIA and the Labour Movement (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1977) and pioneer in the exposure of IRD's role in post-war politics. 2 He is currently writing a splendid column in Tribune in which his rhetorical powers are regularly trained on Tony Blair et al to great effect. Last| Contents| Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-39c.htm
