Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] or acknowledged he got that one wrong? No. Is Ware’s change of line and the state’s change of line a coincidence? A sheltered life Fueled by the Blair faction’s determination to avoid reality, we are living through a period of unprecedented bullshit; Orwellian hardly describes it. And it is creeping in everywhere. Tony Frewin […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] is needed before we come to settled views on international affairs. Notes 1 Kingsley Martin, Harold Laski, London: Gollancz, 1953) 2 The core of the Bush ( Blair) doctrine is the free market. Grandin comments: ‘Call it market polygamy, whereby the US can have multiple partners but each of the partners must be subordinate […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] of the Gang of Four, the strength of the traditional two-party system and the subsequent changes in the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock, John Smith and Tony Blair, the ‘mould breakers’ were doomed from the outset. Yet while all these domestic factors may have some merit we cannot ignore the strategic context in which […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] historical relic of an early twentieth century stitch-up. Those that didn’t were in a minority, and they probably couldn’t stomach any Labour leader for very long anyway. Blair has probably grasped that nettle somewhat better than did Harold Wilson, whose efforts to keep everybody on board probably damaged his health. Do far cats call […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] John A. Leide. Our military leaders Colin Powell Given the widespread disgust with conventional politics (where Clinton and Bush begin to look as alike as Major and Blair), there has been much mumbling about the possibility of a ‘third party’ in the US. The media’s chosen standard bearer last time was the extraterrestrial Texas […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] like President Putin’s, do not serve British interests, including moral objectives, any more than Mossad’s do. (The last of these could be the reason why Prime Minister Blair has linked his name to ‘saving’ Africa. Previously it was Palestine.) The ‘benefits’ of torture Meantime, Chief Scarlett is presented to the public as an expert […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] discover that he is a member of Labour Reform, the group – to which I briefly belonged – which has been trying, without success, to resist the Blair faction’s destruction of the Labour Party. It isn’t just a cheap point to note that Mr Corfe may have plans to save the world from America […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] reporting in places like Chechnya left states such as Russia free to write their own account of complex and far-reaching conflicts.’ Scott’s death guarantees it. Doubtless, as Blair met with Putin in the latter’s hunting lodge, 11 October 2002, the Russian President – his menu of demands in return for compliance with America-versus-Iraq in […]
