Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] a united Europe sound as British as roast beef and brown ale, Major’s deputy Michael Heseltine gave it the aura of an exciting business enterprise and Tony Blair bestowed upon the project the glitter of a chic and fashionable new international club that Britain would be crazy not to join. The first task of […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] kilometres. Blighty is going down the pan This quotation is from Aaron Bastani, co-founder of Novara Media. When asked about her greatest achievement Margaret Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour”. The real legacy of Blair is that he not only cemented much of the Thatcherite settlement but, worse, made many believe that doing […]
[PDF file]: […] financial support for Labour. On whom see or . 44 or 45 See, for example, or . 46 or 47 or 48 My original formulation of the Blair and Israel issue appeared twenty years ago and was reprinted in Lobster 73 with material added at its end, in the light of the Al Jazeera […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘ Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] concentrate on re-assuring the (often ill-informed) non-political suburban voters. Kinnock departed smartly after 1992 and his successor John Smith died suddenly in 1994.16 The new broom, Tony Blair, was anxious to avoid either a further spell in opposition or a hung Parliament, and actively sought the youth For a full account of this period […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson Inquiry about the way the media had treated him. Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men with a plausible, unstuffy manner and a promise of managerial competence.’ Close to […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Minister without Portfolio from 1997 until 1998, when he became Trade and Industry Secretary, acquired responsibility for the Millennium Dome. Despite opposition from most of the Cabinet, Blair decided that the project would go ahead. (Carrell 2000) The Millennium Dome was granted £400m of lottery money, and British Sky Broadcasting were among an array […]