Brexit Revisited: Europe Didn’t Work, and, Brexit Unfolded

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] grip of German bankers intent on preaching protestant rectitude to ill-disciplined countries – which amounted to every country apart from itself, and even itself at times. Thatcher, Blair and Brown The policy choices that the UK made and then induced the EU to follow, were promoting globalisation and reducing protectionism through Thatcherism, and then […]

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] that working for the Occupation changed her. How does she deal with this? The narrative device she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] on economic policy, which in turn was required to demonstrate a break with the perceived failure of Labour’s economic record of the past.’ (emphases added) So: the Blair government had to demonstrate to the City its ‘fitness to govern’ and thus acquired ‘permission’ to do so. Why is this necessary? Because of the ‘perceived […]

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[…] Ukraine does not become a member of NATO. JATEC offers membership in everything but name. Epstein The Epstein documents released so far are on-line.33 I put Tony Blair into the search box there and found a reference to him being the chair of ‘JPMorgan’s “international council” of senior advisers’. I asked Google how much […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] problem for business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that problem in 1966 by creating an insulation […]

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[…] Ukraine does not become a member of NATO. JATEC offers membership in everything but name. Epstein The Epstein documents released so far are on-line.23 I put Tony Blair into the search box there and found a reference to him being the chair of ‘JPMorgan’s “international council” of senior advisers’. I asked Google how much […]

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[…] Ukraine does not become a member of NATO. JATEC offers membership in everything but name. Epstein The Epstein documents released so far are on-line.8 I put Tony Blair into the search box there and found a reference to him being the chair of ‘JPMorgan’s “international council” of senior advisers’. I asked Google how much […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] with the symbols and designators of merit, to perpetuate its own power, status, and privilege. He wrote to the Guardian in 2001 pointing this out when Tony Blair started prominently using it as part of running the country — to define what our society should be like.4 So it should be relatively easy for […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] in the entire history of imperialism, there has been such a calamitous appointment.’ 6 Sillars used the knowledge he acquired as a law student to pursue Tony Blair for Iraq war crimes, but his accumulated evidence did not impress the Scottish Crown Office and his efforts with the International Criminal Court also proved a […]

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