Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] he actually intended to do good in the world. As early as 1995, the eminent sociologist, A. H. Halsey, a fellow ‘Christian Socialist’, had a conversation with Blair regarding the New Testament and its significance today. They discussed who they considered to be the most interesting man in the New Testament after Jesus. Halsey […]

The Rise of New Labour: Into Office

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] once again be crucified on an excessively high exchange rate.’ – Wynne Godley, The Observer (Business) 23 August 1998. By the time Labour took office Brown and Blair had promised to toe the conservative line on economic policy: no income tax rises, no increased public spending, no attempts to use government to direct the […]

View from Bridge copy

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] of unity, to reselect Brown, only to be told by Brown at the meeting that he had ‘a little lifeboat’ and was joining the SDP. 8 Anthony Blair was a keen Bennite in Hackney South – a pose he noticeably avoided whilst simultaneously seeking selection in various locations in the North East of England […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] whole exercise was a New Labour charade. New Labour relied very heavily on McKinsey for advice during its time in office. Indeed, according to Simon Jenkins, under Blair, ‘the day of consultancy government had arrived… Downing Street came under the influence of the McKinsey mafia’.2 As late as February 2009, the New Labour government […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] decided that opposing the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.2 0 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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