Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] was going to happen no matter what anyone said. Had Kelly called a press conference and told the world everything he knew, he could have embarrassed the Blair government; but that’s all. Second, if Kelly’s death looked like an unlikely and/or incompetent way to commit suicide, it was an even more incompetent way to […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] a receptive audience at the highest levels of the Civil Service for a government that would ‘take decisions’. Such opinions should be seen in the context that Blair had already admitted that he spent his entire first term (1997-2001) learning the job and Brown’s priorities appeared to be endlessly gauging his immediate political advantage […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] they decided that opposing the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.24 Changes begun under Neil Kinnock were continued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when they became more or less joint party leaders in 1994 and then took office in 1997. Several wars, the banking crisis (and […]