Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] in the same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the BBC, CNN or Al Jazeera to give the tape recordings an airing. (pp. 77-78) Why then was the Rwandan regime so liked in the West? Tony Blair praised Kagame as ‘a visionary’, while Bill Clinton actually described him as ‘one of the greatest leaders of our time’. (p. 389) A blind eye was […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] sold himself to the Parliamentary Labour Party as a man of vision, of farsighted and deep intellect and sought publicly to distance himself from the perception of Blair as a lightweight, focus group-driven politician. So as a ‘strong’ leader, should he follow his own instincts, or trust in the views of small groups of […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] to do to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what […]