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... echelons of Israel's political parties. ' Think then what that might mean for international politics, given the close ties of Israel to the United States and the extent to which the latter's election process depends on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. "The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks' involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one account of particular importance. The account, called Umbria, which had been established in 1996 at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Switzerland (UBS) was held in the name of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-56b.htm
... the Gould committee report was rejected by Neil Kinnock as soon as it was finished. Gould tells us that, just before the report was due to be published, a group of Labour MPs came to see him to try to get it stopped or modified. One of them was the then rising star of the back-benches, Tony Blair. This was 1988. Gould went on to stand against John Smith for the leadership of the party in 1992 and lost heavily. New Labour – at its core the capitulation to the financial sector – could be said to have begun there. We still don't know why the Gould report was dumped. My guess would be that the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 20 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-crisis.pdf
... her acquisition of the patronage office in 1966 which, hitherto, had been run with the Chief Whip. Much of this money for Wilson's private office, came from Jewish busi-nessmen. Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. ( [52] ) Is it really of no political interest that the Israeli lobby in Britain has been funding one of its major parties? Apparently so. There have been previous accounts of this m nage, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-57b.htm
... the gaff , Robin Ramsay Good-bye Tony , Lobster's writers Fifth Column , Tim Pendry Re: , Terry Hanstock Historical notes ,Scott Newton Inside Gordon's head , Robin Ramsay View from the bridge , Robin Ramsay Iraq , Robin Ramsay Mind control , Robin Ramsay Lobbying , Corinne de Souza MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s Blair Ribbentrop , Andrew Rosthorn Blaususconism , Mike Small The limits of accountability , Jonathan Bloch Books reviewed W. D. Rubinstein, Men of Property Andreas Malm, and Shora Esmailian, Iran on the brink Steve McGiffen, Understanding EU policy-making Nigel West, At Her Majesty's Secret Service Larry Hancock, Someone would have talked Ismael Hossein- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/index.htm
... 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
... and 41 and 43 ) is being harassed by having his attempts to create a business sabotaged because some policemen are afraid of what he experienced. In another society he would be killed or disappear. In ours he is simply being kept down. Robert Henderson is being harassed now because he made a fuss at being harassed in 1997 by Tony Blair and his circle. In effect, he is now being harassed because he is being a bloody nuisance to the powers-that-be. Happily, as a retired Inland Revenue inspector, Mr Henderson has a pretty good idea of how to be a bloody nuisance to the powers-that-be. There are forms of harassment ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-29a.htm
... . Well! Who would have thought it? Thus Rhiannon Vickers, 'Labour's search for a Third Way in foreign policy', concludes (p . 43): 'The Third Way as a compromise between free market capitalism and social democracy has little guidance to offer at the international level. ' Tim Dunne and Nicholas J. Wheeler, 'The Blair doctrine: advancing the Third Way in the world' conclude (p . 74): 'The good intentions of assisting the independence of the East Timorese have been undermined completely by the fact that Labour did not take a principled stand on the question of arms shipments to Jakarta. ' Mark Wickham-Jones, 'Labour Party politics and foreign ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-40.htm
... advice from anywhere. Ideology has also played a part: if you're a Neo-Con, there is no reason to double-check whether 'liberated' countries really do turn naturally to 'democracy'. It seems that in the early 2000s the British intelligence community raised serious doubts that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, which were disregarded by Bush and Blair because they didn't fit in with their presumptions. America's problem after 2001 was not that it had no loyal intelligence allies, but that they were, as Jeffreys-Jones puts it, 'too loyal'. The UN's Hans Blix, who resisted political pressures from all sides in order to make his intelligence more objective, was rubbished. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 20 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-spies-we-trust.pdf
... MI5 took a more relaxed view, with W. Ogilvie responding to the Special Branch report with the observation that Orwell 'has been a bit of an anarchist in his day and in touch with extremist elements. But he has lately thrown in his lot with Victor Gollancz who as you probably know has severed all connection with the Communist Party. Blair undoubtedly (has) strong Left Wing views but he is a long way from orthodox Communism'. As Ogilvie noted, it was evident from Orwell's recent writings (this was before Animal Farm was published) 'that he does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him'. Post-war, of course, Orwell became ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 13 Aug 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-literary-spying.pdf
... is seen to depend. John Newsinger is the latest venturer into looking critically at the times when much of the world atlas was coloured red. It's not an attempt at a comprehensive history, but the retelling of fragments of imperial history ranging from the Jamaican and Indian rebellions through the Palestine revolt, Mau Mau and Suez to the Bush-Blair alliance of our own time. It's a very useful short antidote to the well-publicised sweep of Niall Ferguson. The telegenic Harvard academic tells us of his 'magical' childhood in the Kenya where a few years before an old friend of mine had spent his Army years killing and torturing the natives. The memorable phrase my pal used ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-38.htm
