Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] we could isolate Northern Rock’s problems and partly because, ever since the 1970s, the Labour Party had been losing elections on the question of economic competence. Tony Blair and I had spent twenty years building New Labour on the foundation of market competition, private enterprise, and economic stability as the the path to Adam […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] this is the man who not only initiated Britain’s nuclear weapons programme but also kept it secret from both Parliament and his own Cabinet, something that even Blair would have thought twice about! What of the ‘secret state’? By the time Attlee took office, the bad old days of the ‘Zinoviev Letter’ had been […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] New York as a result flowed via corporate tax and asset and bond purchases to governments (so helping to finance the expansion of the welfare state under Blair and Brown) and, via banks, building societies and finance companies, both to businesses and to millions of private citizens. Lending expanded, personal and corporate borrowing mushroomed. […]