Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] to act accordingly; (2) the US then was run by people who regarded the UK as an essential ally in the nuclear stand-off with the Soviet Union. Blair scrapped the UK’s remaining stockpile of freefall nuclear bombs in 1998 as they had been built 20+ years earlier and, by the ‘90s, aircraft delivered bombs […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] elected parliamentarians featured neophyte Labour MP 1 2 3 Luciana Berger, the ex-National Union of Students (NUS) officer who allegedly was romantically close to one of the Blair offspring as well as former New Labour MP Sion Simon, it failed to mention that her previous job had been as director of Labour Friends of […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] he served, this country did not have a trade deficit. It was the decimation of the manufacturing base by her policies and those of her acolyte, Tony Blair, which produced the ‘huge trade deficit’. When he was a young man, Hague was in the McKinsey management consultant company, spreading the gospel of free markets […]
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. […]