Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] for eight days work and the venture capital outfit, Vantage Point, paid him £92,000 for four and a half days work. He seemed to be the classic Blair clone, busy enriching himself while supposedly representing a poor working class area, creating that interesting New Labour phenomenon whereby the local Labour MP is one of […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] in January 2020, flags were flown at half-mast on public buildings in Britain, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Johnson flew out to attend the funeral and Tony Blair praised the dead tyrant as one of the wisest, most generous men of modern times, a veritable paragon. Such was, and is, the value placed on […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] New Labour. He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting my experience aside, I find Mattinson’s reasoning – ‘how […]