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... police officer must have done it. In 1990, despite the numerous campaigns against miscarriages of justice up and down the country, there was not the widespread disbelief in the police that followed the overturning of the murder convictions of the Birmingham Six in 1991. More recently, there have been the revelations that a Metropolitan police officer most probably killed Blair Peach at Southall in 1979, and South Yorkshire Police conspired to blame Liverpool fans for their deaths at Hillsborough in 1989 in order to deflect attention from their own failings. After his release from prison, Malcolm helped others who had been wrongly convicted. He developed an interest in filmmaking and would often be seen at meetings with cameras and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 17 Jan 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-malcolm-kennedy.pdf
... certainly none to Islam despite the fact Russia has large Muslim communities.) Trust Putin's Russia T his political message would not have been lost on one of the most troubled regions of the world – the Middle East. Here, principally as a result of the actions over a decade ago of 'Crusader' President Bush and his sidekick Prime Minister Blair (the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq), the domino effect still in progress (now in Syria), has led to the decimation throughout the region of all ancient Middle Eastern Christian communities. This Christian community has long known it could trust the Vatican. Now it is being told it can trust President Putin's Russia too. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 10 Feb 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-putin-sochi-pr.pdf
... were no WMDs. In the case of the Americans, this is hardly surprising: they were bent on the invasion and nothing short of Saddam Hussein's dismantling of his regime – and maybe not even that – would have prevented the assault. Apparently unable just to say publicly that 'We have to to support the Americans', it was Tony Blair who needed to persuade himself that the cause was justified by the 'intelligence' on WMDs. The 18th also saw striking quotations in an article in the Guardian3 1 from the heads of British armed forces at the time, condemning the invasion as incompetent, ill-thought out etc. Good to read, chaps, but I remember that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 18 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... of her rivals for that job – bothered to dig up some copy from the late 1970s when Harman was one of the leaders of the NCCL which showed off her then 'progressive' views on child sexuality, and fed it to The Daily Telegraph.10 TB's associates Meanwhile Tony Blair's commercial activities are expanding rapidly. His 'consultancy', Tony Blair Associates, now employs 80 people, according to an article by Edward Heathcote-Amory 8 <http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Study-reveals-true-extent- of.5230278.jp 9 The Mail spotted that Mandelson was wearing a watch which cost £20,000.<www. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-103.pdf
... and it was never provided with enough staff to do even a half-assed job of 'oversight'. At one point its staff consisted of one researcher, John Morrison, a former senior Defence Intelligence officer (it now has three). Morrison gave an interview to the BBC in 2004 in which he said that when he heard Tony Blair claiming in 2002 that Iraq posed a 'serious and current' threat, he 'could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall. ' 19 That comment got him fired after the committee was informed 18 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-31665312>. 19 <http ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 28 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... the Brecon Beacons … [teaching] them to strip and clean weapons and gave them endurance training and lessons in surveillance techniques' — all of which is conveniently forgotten.4 2 The governments of France, Yemen, and Egypt sought his extradition on charges of recruiting for the GIA, kidnapping, and links to terrorism, respectively. The Blair Government protected Hamza. Another protected asset was Rachid Ramda, head of the London branch of the GIA. He was wanted by the French in connection with terrorism, including the Paris Metro bombing in 1995. In 2002, the British High Court rejected France's extradition requests. Also in the mid-1990s, MI6 wired £100, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 27 Feb 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-africom-nato-eu.pdf
237. Lobbying [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... instances, the requirement is for more political privatisation of democracy, not less. The Guardian 16 March 2004 reported that Dr Paul Drayson's company, PowderJect, was awarded, without competition, a £32m contract to produce smallpox vaccine. Drayson donated £100,000 to Labour and was one of a small group of businessmen to meet Mr Blair in Downing Street for breakfast in 2001. Britain's biggest arms deal in history was signed with Saudi Arabia six years into ex-policeman Ray Smith's campaign to ascertain how his daughter died in the country. One of the most bizarre, coincidental associations is that the law whether or not to hold an inquest following the deaths of British citizens ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-31.htm
... as an intelligence adviser to the Prime Minister, the Joint Intelligence Committee and COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A). ' 107 Summer 2010 'To pretend that the politicians were out of the loop on what was going on is implausible deniability if ever I have heard it. The idea that the British intelligence services were conducting the Bush-Blair "war on terror" without formal instructions about how to behave from their political masters is plain silly. And even if our political leaders had wanted to do something different it would have been impossible. The British intelligence services are really wholly owned subsidiaries of their US counterparts – no more "independent" than our nuclear deterrent. Once ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-094.pdf
... SIS may need to conjure a perception of refound elegance, in a guise suited to the modern world. A sense of humour is always useful.(15) Updating Britannia Niche state players can sometimes be restored to brand strength if there is evidence of exceptional post-failure leadership or national reputation overall remains strong. Under former Prime Minister Blair, prior to the war, this was certainly the case. Many took pride in Britain's image – established by SIS as much as any other organisation – as 'a little country punching above its weight'. This identity, because of Iraq, has been sacrificed and, to date, a new one not found. At the moment ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-14.htm
... previously.4 1 The Labour Left has to go through these ritual manoeuvres on this issue in particular, because their opponents in the Labour Party, in the pro-European Union wing, as well as in the predominantly pro- EU media, attempt to contaminate them with nationalism – and thus the right. Here is Prime Minister Tony Blair doing it, in his talk to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Leadership Conference, in Australia:'...the Labour government I hope to lead will be outward-looking, internationalist and committed to free and open trade, not an outdated and misguided narrow nationalism. ' (emphasis added)42 Nationalism contaminates on the British Left ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 20 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
