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The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[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 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] debt was higher in the 1950s, but HMG was then still paying off the debit created fighting WW2. Desperate stuff from Mr Timothy. The blessed Tony Tony Blair was interviewed in the Observer on 12 September and he said: The day I left office in 2007, we had improving public services, a strong economy, […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] debt was higher in the 1950s, but HMG was then still paying off the debit created fighting WW2. Desperate stuff from Mr Timothy. The blessed Tony Tony Blair was interviewed in the Observer on 12 September and he said: The day I left office in 2007, we had improving public services, a strong economy, […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] reporting of Israeli actions in Gaza. The UK Press Gazette warned in 2015 of the dangers the legislation presented to the media.9 *new* The blessed Tony Tony Blair was interviewed in the Observer on 12 September and he said: The day I left office in 2007, we had improving public services, a strong economy, […]

Gaza 2009: Revisiting the Goldstone Report

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] governments condoning, indeed complicit, in a protracted massacre. The British response to Goldstone By the time Operation Cast Lead was carried out, Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. Brown was absolutely committed to supporting Israel and to keeping in step with the United States but, at least initially, seems to […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a normal life.’ Sweet FA A rather lower level of punishment came the same week for Lord Triesman, the former New Labour Foreign Office minister under Tony Blair. The ex-communist multimillionaire, a close friend of New Labour fundraiser Lord Levy, and the party’s general secretary between 2001-3, had been appointed chairman of the Football […]

The Two Goulds

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[PDF file]: […] stated openly at the time. Instead Neil Kinnock tried to get the paper changed on the q.t.. He sent a delegation of Eatwell, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair – an early sighting of the Brown-Blair tandem – to see Gould the day before his committee’s document was going to the printer.9 Gould was: extremely […]

The two Goulds

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[…] stated openly at the time. Instead Neil Kinnock tried to get the paper changed on the q.t.. He sent a delegation of Eatwell, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair – an early sighting of the Brown-Blair tandem – to see Gould the day before his committee’s document was going to the printer.9 Gould was: ‘extremely […]