The View from the Bridge

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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the headline to Gordon Brown’s latest tone-deaf article about Broken-down Blighty.30 He is incapable of admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for This issue was discussed in this column in Lobster 80, under subhead Baseless. 26 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the headline to Gordon Brown’s latest tone-deaf article about Broken-down Blighty.29 He is incapable of admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for neo-con economic fantasies and their belief that this country didn’t need to make things […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the headline to Gordon Brown’s latest tone-deaf article about Broken-down Blighty.29 He is incapable of admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for neo-con economic fantasies and their belief that this country didn’t need to make things […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

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 […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] included many campaigning Zionists.12 Friends of Israel details the funding of a large number of other Israelsupporting organisations from the Jewish National Fund UK founded in 1901 (Blair and Brown are two of its patrons) to more recent ones. These include UK Lawyers for Israel and We Believe in Israel which became very active […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

Lobster Issue

[…] included many campaigning Zionists.12 Friends of Israel details the funding of a large number of other Israelsupporting organisations from the Jewish National Fund UK founded in 1901 (Blair and Brown are two of its patrons) to more recent ones. These include UK Lawyers for Israel and We Believe in Israel which became very active […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] ilk in Lobster 83, in this column at under subheads Broon and More Broon. 3 admitting – or, perhaps, incapable of grasping – that he and Tony Blair played a considerable role in creating this mess with their support for neo-con economic fantasies and their belief that this country didn’t need to make things […]

Friends of Israel Booth pdf

Lobster Issue

[…] included many campaigning Zionists.12 Friends of Israel details the funding of a large number of other Israelsupporting organisations from the Jewish National Fund UK founded in 1901 (Blair and Brown are two of its patrons) to more recent ones. These include UK Lawyers for Israel and We Believe in Israel which became very active […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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