Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] and troops, citing ‘quality intelligence’ of an imminent attack. With the Iraq invasion looming in the background and widespread disbelief in the WMD fairy-story, many accused Mr Blair of cooking up a false alarm with regard to Heathrow too. But it seems very unlikely that Mr Blair was behind it: the impetus for the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of 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. ‘ 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 […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

The two Goulds

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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