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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
233. Sources [Lobster #40 (Winter 2000/1)]
... / 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-21.htm
234. 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
... of Northern Ireland despite the Northern Bank raid, the murder of Robert McCartney in an IRA shibeen in the Markets and a similar IRA murder of a taxi driver in Dublin, as a favour to a criminal. Inevitably, the riots took an incoherent and reactionary form, with the graffiti along the Shore Road now equating Peter Hain and Tony Blair with the IRA, and the racist targeting of a Chinese takeaway leading to the burning of Sammy Wilson's DUP offices next door. While UVF supporters attacked the police and David Ervine said he could do nothing to stop the violence, the UDA resumed sectarian attacks e.g . in the mixed area of the Village where I drink, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-12.htm
... who was used in a big disinformation operation against the Soviet bloc in the early 1950s by the CIA.58 This is fascinating and intricate stuff, in places as hard to follow for a virtual beginner like me as some of the more complex JFK forensic analyses. Friends of the Friends The emasculation of the Labour Party is generally attributed to Blair and Brown in the 1990s; but it began much earlier, with the 1988/9 policy review which started the process of accommodating the City and the Americans. Leading that review was party leader Neil Kinnock, now Lord Kinnock. Adrian Gatton, via Tony Frewin, pointed me at a collection of conversations with former US diplomats. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 28 Apr 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... are concerned. Andersen, PFI and New Labour The most interesting part of their governmental work has been concerned with the deregulation and privatisation of services. They have been particularly prominent in promoting PFI (Private Finance Initiative) as the solution to the problem of squaring the provision of public services with low levels of taxation. Before 1996, Tony Blair had consistently ridiculed the notion that PFI could be a magic formula that would cut costs and improve services at the same time. The moribund state of the British rail network under privatisation was the main example used by Blair. New Labour's policy changed after a seminar for senior Labour Party figures was held at Templeton College, Oxford. in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-03.htm
... 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
239. RE: [Lobster #55 (Summer 2008)]
... : implications for public administration'. 'Lord Butler will examine the reasons why the UK intelligence community seem to have reached wrong conclusions about Iraq's possession of WMD and the lessons that can be learned for the future. ' Not that we'll ever learn the lessons as the event was 'off the record' and closed to the media. Sir Ian Blair on 'Policing the metropolis: current challenges'. Challenges include ' communication and accountability in an increasingly diverse world city'. This event was also 'off the record' and closed to the media. Election fevers The US Election Technology Council has admitted what many already feared:'..no voting technology is invulnerable, and it is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-39.htm
... 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
