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... and ECHR. The Labour peer, Lord Ahmed, also complained that transcripts of his phone conversations were given to ministers. Unusually, in this case the government said that Lord Ahmed was not under surveillance, a departure from their normal policy of neither confirm nor deny with regard to such claims. (24) In a written answer Tony Blair stated that government policy remains that there be no tapping of telephones of members of the Houses of Commons and Lords, and with this exception it remains the normal policy of the government neither to confirm nor deny such allegations. (25) Since October 2000 it is believed that the IPT has received between 150-160 complaints and has ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-23.htm
... sentimental public support, while reduced to 20% of the size at the start of HRH's reign. The independent management of the UK nuclear deterrent was quickly dropped by Macmillan (in 1958) in favour of co-operation with the US and the last solely UK-built and maintained nuclear weapons, free fall bombs, were scrapped by Blair in 1998. Britain now borrows its nuclear deterrent from the US, and would have to consult it prior to its use, this arrangement being cheaper than paying to build, maintain and deploy an exclusively UK owned deterrent (i .e . it is cheaper than following the procedures used by everybody else).7 Although disputes continue ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 07 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-apocryphilia.pdf
... and limited liability) and start advocating a more pragmatic and broader Summer 2010 84 approach to economic policy based on what actually happens rather than what an ideology tells them will happen. Robert Henderson is a retired civil servant. His account of being harassed and smeared by the British state for the 'offence' of writing letters to Tony and Cherie Blair was in Lobster 45. Summer 2010 85 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-061.pdf
... Think Tank Spy. Sunday Times, 31 October 1999 Observer 25 June 2000 Sunday Business 5 November 2000 made the point that European-owned private security industry is making in-roads into the USA. Sunday Times, 30 July 2000 The Punch story, in issue 117, October 2000, about Sir John Browne of BP, Prime Minister Blair and the Russian oil money comes to mind - unless the retired SIS officer that sits on BP's board forgot to check out the latest news from Russia with his former SIS colleagues. It was interesting, incidentally, that in an otherwise excellent article about the independent housing trust that runs the Dolphin Square apartments in London, the Evening Standard ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-01.htm
... as 1946. He had a lengthy record of interventions on matters concerning sexuality, voted against homosexual decriminalisation in the House of Lords and conducted the cover-up inquiry in the Profumo case. [12] In Thatcher & Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (2006) Simon Jenkins comments that one effect of the Thatcher, Major and Blair years has been the running down of local and regional democracy and the enormous growth in the unelected power of the Treasury. [13] The Conservatives had a unit at Central Office after 1975 that sniffed out stories of alleged 'waste' and incompetence in local government and then fed them to the media. This reached a peak in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-28.htm
... to the inevitable conclusion that the unparalleled criminality of the U.S . leads right to the top. This is a must read for those who wish to see the real democratic practice of international law and a new Zeitgeist united. Addendum The recently sacked (likely a neocon manoeuvre) ex-director of national intelligence, retired Admiral Dennis Blair, told Congress in February last year, that the world-wide economic crisis is the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States, trumping even global 151 Summer 2010 terrorism and the proliferation of WMD. Here's a thought for our unruly, yet often likeable cowboy cousins as we look from this side of the pond ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-136.pdf
... ' And thus, as many in the conventional 'realist' US policy establishment were to deplore, the Iraq war of March 2003 became America's own 'war of choice', with fabricated WMD claims as the ostensible causus belli. Reality though, returned to haunt the crippled Bush administration with a vengeance. And if Bush and Cheney (and Tony Blair) had remained true to the last in cheerleading Israel's chaotic reinvasion of Lebanon of August 2006, plans for the most ambitious Israeli pre-emption yet – the mooted air assault on Iran of June 2008 (16) – were quashed as being 'extremely stressful' for US forces.(17) But it may have been a close ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-03.htm
... Private Secretary and the Lord Chamberlain, usually attending.(47) Nothing has been made public about the meeting or the report. However, it is on record that the Prime Minister was scheduled to meet with the Royal family on the weekend following the crash. Up for discussion is the future of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Mr Blair is determined to hammer out an agreement which will protect the monarchy. A Labour insider said: "This will be the ultimate pow-wow. The issue can not be put off any longer...Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed and her role in public life will also be reviewed."(48) The Duke of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-03.htm
... JOHN MICHAEL WARD B 3.11.08 MI5 (W ) 1945-50 HEAD OF F(A ) RUNNING DEEP COVER PENETRATION AGENTS IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY. RUN FROM FLAT IN EXHIBITION RD, SOUTH KENSINGTON 1952-84 AUTHOR JOHN BINGHAM SPY/THRILLERS WIFE, MADELEINE, INTELL WWII, AUTOBIOGRAPHY BARRED BY D-NOTICE COMMITTEE BLAIR , CHARLES NEIL MOLESWORTH CMG (1962) OBE (48) B 22.10.10 ARMY AND NAVY MI6 (W ) 1939 BLACKWATCH EUROPE N AFRICA, SICILY 1941 INSTRUCTOR ARMY STAFF COLL 1943 COMMANDED 1ST BLACK WATCH 1944 ARMY STAFF COLL 1945 RETIRED, WAR WOUNDS 1951-67 FO MI6 SENIOR MI6 OFFICER WHO WROTE OFFICIAL ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-04.htm
... conclusively proven. See my 'The Death of Bob Smillie', Historical Journal 41, 2 (June 1998) Orwell's Politics op cit, pp. 124-130. Ibid, pp. 72-77. Orwell's third way must not, of course, be confused with New Labour's third way as advocated by Orwell's conservative namesake, Tony Blair. New Labour's third way is committed not to the socialist but to the capitalist transformation of British society. For Orwell as Tribune Socialist see Bernard Crick, George Orwell: A Life (London: Penguin 1992), pp. 444-449. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, pp. 99, 118. Orwell's Politics op ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-03.htm
