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... Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn't have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson's reasoning – 'how New Labour stopped listening to the voter' – weak, and her prescriptions for a 'new politics' unconvincing. Like many New Labour leading lights she dismisses the catastrophic collapse of the Tories under John Major. And what was New Labour, after all, other than a 'new politics'? It's sad, but not surprising, that a party's fate was in the hands of the likes of those so insubstantial as Mattinson, and that The Sunday Times serialisation of this book generated more media heat than light on the dead ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-140.pdf
... for the leadership of the Conservative Party. The office has provided him with endless opportunities for self- advertisement from appearing in East Enders to hijacking the Olympics. Is he unstoppable? In an obvious attempt to embarrass the Government, he recently called for the top rate of tax to be cut to 40%, massaging the fantasies of the Tory right with the possibility that his popularity is such that he, unlike Osborne, might actually be able to get away with such a massive handout to the rich during a recession. Many hardline right-wing Tories cannot understand why the Tea Party phenomenon has never taken off in Britain and see Johnson as a potential one-man Tea ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-borisconi.pdf
... class forces that has left the country in the hands of the likes of Murdoch. Where did it all go wrong for Brown? After everything he had done, why did Murdoch decide to support David Cameron, someone he affected to despise as an over-privileged toff? Both Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch2 were urging Murdoch to back the Tories, something that he did with great reluctance. He recognised that Brown was a hard-nosed right- winger who could certainly be trusted to take whatever measures were necessary to protect the interests of the rich and super rich during the recession. Brown had proven himself more than amenable to furthering the interests of News International. What seems ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 09 Sep 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-murdoch.pdf
... the election of 1997 the psychological process of denial had kicked in. Faced with something they didn't want to know – the reality of NuLab – the members of my Labour Party branch told themselves it wasn't true. The essential shift, which I heard over and over again in Labour Party circles was this: yes, they sound terribly like Tories but they don't mean it. It's a pretence to get elected. After 1997 all they could see was: he's got us elected. Which, indeed, was all that most MPs saw: Tony is a winner. There's an phrase that came from the American Quakers in the 1950s, that the role of people like me is ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-new-labour.pdf
... as 1974 Rowland provided Savimbi with a Hawker Siddley 125 and two pilots. He also set up a small company, Armitage Industrial Holdings, from the Slater/Walker group, to transport arms and supplies to Unita. (British Intelligence and Covert Action p193). When Savimbi visited Britain in 1980, Lonrho paid for expensive receptions hosted by Tory MP Edward Du Cann, a Lonrho director, at which Savimbi met Tory MPs. Unita's links to South Africa, a source of arms and finance, are well established. In April, Tertius Myburgh, editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, organised a public relations exercise for Unita. He took almost every English-language newspaper on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-05.htm
... divided. (Given the BBC's historic closeness to the state, particularly over foreign policy, its row with No. 10 over Andrew Gilligan is likewise interesting.) Those differences then found public expression from the briefings of the late Dr David Kelly to the intelligence services criticism of the Iraq dossier, from the opposition to the war of senior Tories previously supportive of almost every US initiative since the war to Robin Cook and, in turn, found an echo in a wider public. And that electorate is becoming harder to convince despite now almost because of the propaganda. This is not only because other information sources are now more widely and immediately available, but because the British electorate ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-09.htm
... , the author of the wonderful study of the paedophile panic centred round a children's' home in Wales, The Secret of Bryn Estyn (The Orwell Press, 2005), has written a very interesting essay on the growth of the Kelly conspiracy theories.4 Cometh the hour A nd then there as the case of Rory Stewart, new Tory MP for Penrith and the Border, still sort of trying to deny that he was an MI6 officer. A piece in the Telegraph 5 said 'Stewart last year dismissed claims circulating on the internet that he himself had 4 At <www.richardwebster.net>. 5 Jon Swaine, 'Rory Stewart concedes career "gives appearance" that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 23 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-105.pdf
... speech than he did!" He pointed to Kubeykin and Misha and added, "Isn't that true?! But in politics and elections they are our opponents." Then he criticized them for their behavior at the last elections: they put their candidates in the places where every vote mattered for the Labour Party, and as a result Tories and Liberals won some of the seats. ' 55 Hayward says here, more or less, what he apparently said in the Soviet embassy in London. The author of the Telegraph piece quoted above, the man with access to the product of the bugging of the Soviet embassy, is Giles Udy. His publisher's blurb on him includes ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 17 May 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... ', Evening Standard 24 June 1999, p.1 ; John Aston and Mike Taylor, 'Fayed loses Diana inquest court case' Press Association 9 November 1999; Clare Dyer, 'Judge denies Al Fayed key role in Princess Diana inquest' The Guardian 10 November 1999, p.7 . See Marie Woolf, 'MP's dismay as ex-Tory minister takes Fayed job', Daily Telegraph 5 April 2000; Nicholas Watt, 'Tory MP to quit over Fayed job', The Guardian 10 April 2000; Robert Shrimsley, 'Tory MP in Fayed row is to quit', Daily Telegraph 10 April 2000; Philip Johnston. 'How a Tory came to change his mind on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-03.htm
... his leadership are in order. First, as we have seen earlier, it was during this period that the first serious attempts were made to broaden and deepen the NF's ideology. It is precisely this point -- the determined efforts made by those remaining in the NF to construct a new ideological mix to avoid being again outflanked by the Tory right -- that has been missed by virtually all academic studies of the NF, whose authors have remained content merely to assert ideological continuity with throwaway phrases about Strasserism and the ideas of Julius Evola (as though the two were easily compatible), and finishing off with guarded warnings culled from sundry issues of Searchlight about 'going underground' ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-09.htm
