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[…] to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the absence of any sanction that […]

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[…] to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the absence of any sanction that […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] only were the miners crushed, but Rupert Murdoch, with Thatcher’s blessing, staged his ‘audacious coup’ at Wapping. Murdoch’s long-standing pernicious influence on British politics through the Thatcher, Blair and Cameron years does not seem to even interest – let alone trouble – our intrepid investigative reporter. What does upset him though is the fact […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] conveniently forgotten.4 2 The governments of France, Yemen, and Egypt sought his extradition on charges of recruiting for the GIA, kidnapping, and links to terrorism, respectively. The Blair Government protected Hamza. Another protected asset was Rachid Ramda, head of the London branch of the GIA. He was wanted by the French in connection with […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: Bad Labour Keir Starmer: The Biography Tom Baldwin London: William Collins, 2024, £25, h/b John Newsinger At the recent election Labour only secured 33.7% of votes nationally, and half the number of people voted for Keir Starmer in his own constituency as they did in 2019.1 Despite this, he became Prime Minister with a 174 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] virtual beginner like me as some of the more complex JFK forensic analyses. Friends of the Friends The emasculation of the Labour Party is generally attributed to Blair and Brown in the 1990s; but it began much earlier, with the 1988/9 policy review which started the process of accommodating the City and the Americans. […]

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Newsinger on Strarmer

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Bad Labour Keir Starmer: The Biography Tom Baldwin London: William Collins, 2024, £25, h/b John Newsinger At the recent election Labour only secured 33.7% of votes nationally, and half the number of people voted for Keir Starmer in his own constituency as they did in 2019.1 Despite this, he became Prime Minister with a 174 […]

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[…] to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? And this is just allowed?” It was the gap between all the stuff that was happening and the absence of any sanction that […]

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[…] prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there was a natural evolution away 27 28 or 29 30 See, for example, or . 31 9 from making things […]

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