Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] or else they swallowed whole the current orthodoxy since they had no capacity to take an independent view. Gordon Brown fell into this latter category – Tony Blair the former. John Smith had only a rudimentary knowledge of economics, but was a little more confident on the nuts and bolts of tax and accounting. […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] to ‘democracy’. It seems that in the early 2000s the British intelligence community raised serious doubts that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, which were disregarded by Bush and Blair because they didn’t fit in with their presumptions. America’s problem after 2001 was not that it had no loyal intelligence allies, but that they were, as […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] investigation in 2004, but, in a clear case of political interference in the judicial process, it was closed in 2006, after intervention from then Prime Minister Tony Blair, on grounds of public interest, amid concerns that relations with Saudi Arabia were being harmed. In August 2013 the issue surfaced again when the SFO admitted […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] with extremist elements. But he has lately thrown in his lot with Victor Gollancz who as you probably know has severed all connection with the Communist Party. Blair undoubtedly (has) strong Left Wing views but he is a long way from orthodox Communism’. As Ogilvie noted, it was evident from Orwell’s recent writings (this […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Iraq invasion, told him ‘that whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony Blair, Dubya’s political catamite, knew what was expected of him and was determined to deliver it. 199 Summer 2010 that proclaims itself to be a study of […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] for eight days work and the venture capital outfit, Vantage Point, paid him £92,000 for four and a half days work. He seemed to be the classic Blair clone, busy enriching himself while supposedly representing a poor working class area, creating that interesting New Labour phenomenon whereby the local Labour MP is one of […]