Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] frustration. It always seemed odd to me, living in London but regularly visiting family and friends in the ‘Labour heartlands’, that many party Remainers – from Tony Blair in his prime ministerial pomp to Starmer in his pre-2019 efforts to undermine Jeremy Corbyn 2– failed to address the growing popular feeling against continued European […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] earlier Prime Minister: ‘Home for lunch with Oman Ambassador, Abdulaziz al Hinai, and bump into Simon Walters of the Mail on Sunday outside Harry’s Bar. He says Blair is pitching to Jared Kushner to offer advice on the Middle East, and (bizarre and not true) that Trump demanded the dismissal of Robert Hannigan from […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] – was rising before 2008 and is caused by UK taxes being too low. But no mainstream British politician will argue for raising taxes. While in office Blair, Brown and Balls encouraged the delusion that the UK could have American levels of taxation and EU levels of public services. Apologising for that and the […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] standards. He provides some additional material on the nature of the Blair-Brown years that chimes with much that has now appeared. He concludes that the only policy Blair, Brown and Mandelson had worked out in detail prior to 1997 was how they would deal with the media.1 1 He argues in favour of devolution […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] Libya, through ex – or ‘ex’; deniable, at any rate – MI6 officer Mark Allen. This culminated publicly in the rapprochement symbolised by Gadaffi and Prime Minister Blair embracing in 2004; and privately in the British security and intelligence services helping to send back anti-Gadaffi activists (one from the 1996 group paid by MI6) […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] New Labour, he really gives the game away. While he sources more in this book than in his weekly Observer column, there’s still too much referenced as ‘Blair inner circle’ and ‘interviews, senior officers’ to accept this as anything like a historical record. What it does manage to do is confirm the New Labour […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] exposed when nationalist governments in those countries tried to enforce compensation for eminent domain actions based on tax returns that had been filed under previous regimes. John Blair, in two studies produced while he was an economist for the defunct US Congressional Committee on Transnational Corporations, wrote quite clearly that the US Government has […]
