View from the bridge

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[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.72 […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] the real democratic practice of international law and a new Zeitgeist united. Addendum The recently sacked (likely a neocon manoeuvre) ex-director of national intelligence, retired Admiral Dennis Blair, told Congress in February last year, that the world-wide economic crisis is the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States, trumping even […]

View from the bridge

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[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.64 […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] Criminal Court (ICC). Invading Iraq caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. To date the ICC has not issued arrest warrants for George Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the availability of this weaponry allowed loyalist killings to exceed republican killings by 1992. Cory ordered that independent public enquiries should be held into the killings. The Blair government responded by passing the Inquiries Act (2005), something strongly opposed by Cory, who noted ‘For example, the Minister, the actions of whose ministry was to […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.1 1 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] he served, this country did not have a trade deficit. It was the decimation of the manufacturing base by her policies and those of her acolyte, Tony Blair, which produced the ‘huge trade deficit’. When he was a young man, Hague was in the McKinsey management consultant company, spreading the gospel of free markets […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] don’t think anyone who cares passionately about the Act can be under any illusions about the result this review is expected to produce. (In his autobiography Tony Blair disowned it as the worst mistake he made as Prime Minister, which is surely both unexpectedly honest and chutzpah on a scale so gobsmacking that it […]

Enron accounting… and how to prevent it

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2010 approach to economic policy based on what actually happens rather than what an ideology tells them will happen. Robert Henderson is a retired civil servant. His account of being harassed and smeared by the British state for the ‘offence’ of writing letters to Tony and Cherie Blair was in Lobster 45. 85 Summer 2010

View from the bridge

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[…] say that the free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.53 […]

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