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 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has always been on Murdoch’s close relationship first with Thatcher and then with Blair and Brown. What McKnight brings out is the extent to which it is the United States that is the real object of Murdoch’s affection. While he […]