Reflections On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder – a prof with a Kashalnikov! Notes 1 Tony Blair and Gordon Brown believe in the fairy story Uncle Sam. They really do. This is what makes them so useful to the Americans. They didn’t have […]

The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] 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 […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] as to why the USA empowered the KLA to take over Kosovo. How the U.S. Restored Narco-Barons to Power in Afghanistan, 2001 It is clear that the Blair and Bush Administrations did have drugs in mind when in 2001 they developed a strategy for ousting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Their plans focused chiefly on […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] office, came from Jewish businessmen. Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 Lindsey Jenkins, […]

The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soil us

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] on huge cash injections. Kochan also tells us that laundered money – in this case from the former dictator of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha – helped Tony Blair get New Labour off the ground. “The British Financial Services Authority conducted its own investigation of British banks’ involvement in the Abacha scandal and unearthed one […]

George Orwell and the IRD

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] 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, […]

The Westminster Whistleblowers

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] to the newspapers to blow the whistle, or even to go to their union or professional association and begin proceedings against their loopy, tyrannical boss. The Thatcher/ Blair duo’s greatest achievement was getting home-ownership in Britain up to around 70%. There’s nothing like having to worry about mortgage payments to reduce the uppityness of […]

Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, stating-the-obvious-at-alltimes tales of Peter Mandelson; the fantastic, optimistic and daytime TV-oriented (and thus immensely popular) narrative of Tony Blair; Jonathan Powell’s treatise on Machiavellianism; and the diarised compendium of sad little stories from Chris Mullin, as he crept away from the political stage after 2005. […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] it that – uniquely among modern Presidential enactions – there was no photographer present to capture the historic moment. It is fitting that Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, who gave the UK its own FOI Act, has since attempted to disassociate himself from the law he presented to the Queen for Royal Assent in […]

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