The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] bushes in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 or 29 7 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]

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[…] bushes in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 or 29 7 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: Team mercenary GB Part 2 – This is the modern world Nick Must The 21st century UK PMC In my first article on the British influence on the world of Private Military Contractors (PMCs),1 I covered the period from the 1960s to the beginning of the new millennium. I showed that there was a distinct […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] 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 […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] in Texas for dirt on LBJ’s role in the Estes scandal. 26 or . 27 posted on 3 July. 28 7 an economic calamity’.29 Item: ‘From Tony Blair to George Osborne, our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away’ – the subhead to Aditya Chakrabortty’s ‘Britain is the […]

The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution by Antonio Giustozzi

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the war in Afghanistan was not of any great concern to the British government, as long as fealty to the American Empire was faithfully demonstrated. As Tony Blair once remarked, it was sometimes necessary to cement the ‘special relationship’ in blood – other people’s blood. But why has the war gone so disastrously wrong? […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] to ‘democracy’. It seems that in the early 2000s the British intelligence community raised serious doubts that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, which were disregarded by Bush and Blair because they didn’t fit in with their presumptions. America’s problem after 2001 was not that it had no loyal intelligence allies, but that they were, as […]

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.43 […]

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