Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] and Cameron.’ (Author’s italics.) The details need not detain us save to say that a Hanning source confirms that the then head of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, arranged Brooks’ use of the horse and was told that Cameron would also be riding it. There are lots of similar stories of the masked meshing […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] of Labour MPs came to see him to try to get it stopped or modified. One of them was the then rising star of the back-benches, Tony Blair. This was 1988. Gould went on to stand against John Smith for the leadership of the party in 1992 and lost heavily. New Labour – at […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] a sordid and duplicitous industry that believes everything and everybody is fair game for subverting. Now, this may not be news to anyone aside from the Revd Blair, but to read the cumulative and ongoing evidence here is a sobering experience. Big Tobacco is Big Money and the industry soon learnt that there was […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] Secretary William Hague on the day the last British troops left Iraq: it was reported at the same time that Sir John – who helped Prime Minister Blair make the case for the illegal invasion of Iraq – had taken a top job with an oil firm in the country. Adept SIS PR campaign […]