[PDF file]: reformatted late 2023 The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq. A report on this, with […]
[…] financial support for Labour. On whom see or . 44 or 45 See, for example, or . 46 or 47 or 48 My original formulation of the Blair and Israel issue appeared twenty years ago and was reprinted in Lobster 73 with material added at its end, in the light of the Al Jazeera […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] front room in Hull. Reading it may just change your view of the world … HO whacked JFK? What happened to Dodi and Di in Paris? Did Blair and Campbell tell us all porkies about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and how many American troops are based overseas in foreign states? If these questions […]
[…] 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 or 4 5 or 6 […]
[PDF file]: Apocryphylia Simon Matthews Letter of the week! W atching Newsnight or any of the other flagship current affairs programmes, it is striking how little attention is being paid to the possibility of Scottish independence. Coverage of day-to-day politics remains focussed on speculation about the outcome of the 2015 General Election, with a basic assumption that […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 1979. He was succeeded in his Leicester West seat by Patricia Hewitt, a former aide to Neil Kinnock who became a New Labour Cabinet minister under Tony Blair. Several stories have appeared suggesting that the former president of the Jewish Board of Deputies, vice-president of the Jewish Leadership Council and the World Jewish Congress […]
The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay One of the Blair legacies I have written in these columns before about the consequences of the American and British use of depleted uranium in their munitions, for example by the Americans in their assault on Falluja, in Iraq A report on this, with pictures of babies […]
