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... 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
... his purchase of the London Times and with an eye to the threatened privatisation of the BBC. However, he retained an eye to Labour's future leadership with the British American Project from 1983 and in 1993 at Davos (with the printing unions crushed) indicated he might support Labour in the future. This led to the courtship of Murdoch by Blair, the hijacking of the Labour Party in 1995 and its subsequent fawning over Murdoch even as it has cut the BBC's budget in real terms. Dorril and Ramsay (see note 2) pp. 264-269. Also Penrose, B., and Courtier, R., The Pencourt File, (London: Secker and Warburg ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-22.htm
... 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
... 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
... 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
... . The Crown Prosecution Service is now reported to be considering evidence against Janner as part of an inquiry into historical child abuse.25 Janner took ermine when he retired from the Commons in 1979. He was succeeded in his Leicester West seat by Patricia Hewitt, a former aide to Neil Kinnock who became a New Labour Cabinet minister under Tony Blair. Several stories have appeared suggesting that the former president of the Jewish Board of Deputies, vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council and the World Jewish Congress is now suffering dementia. The Daily Mirror reported, however, that 25 <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 20 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-tittle-tattle.pdf
... 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
... Big Table ) by insinuating themselves up the arse of the White House,(2 ) oblivious to the shameful spectacle this made of the country in the eyes of the rest of the world. And the rest, as they say, is history. Notes Historical Research, Vol. 73, no. 181 (June 2000). Blair s ambassador to the US says he was instructed by Jonathan Powell, Blair s Chief of Staff, to to get up the arse of the White House and stay there. Last | Contents | Next ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 10 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-09.htm
... South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Is Boris Johnson the new George Brown? The position of Foreign Secretary has occasionally been used by Prime Ministers to put trouble-makers in a position of power that keeps them away from home as much as possible. (Remember the Blair cabinet and Robin Cook?) As the Foreign Secretary of Harold Wilson's first cabinet, George Brown was famous for regularly being the worse for wear following a liquid lunch. Indeed, a biography of Brown is titled Tired and Emotional1 in tribute to the phrase that Private Eye derived from his frequently inebriated state. He is almost equally famous for attending a diplomatic reception in Peru, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 25 Jul 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster76/lob76-south-of-the-border.pdf
... indicative of different incompetence including the poor relationship between the Prime Minister's PROs and Whitehall's. This is best illustrated by Prime Minister Blair's full page photograph in the Sun, which went around the world as an 'exclusive'. It will be remembered by many overseas not for the sun-drenched image of a post-invasion youthful-looking Mr Blair, but because the same photograph included a large impression of the soles of his shoes, a cultural gaff in some countries, symbolic of treading on 'unholy' ground. I think it unlikely that a Foreign office PR would have passed it, unless s/he wished to stuff the PM, which is always a possibility, as ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-09.htm
