The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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. […]

Tottenham burning: the minor practitioners of Soros’ “open society”

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] on our streets.’ There was no irony in this statement, no humility, no cognitive spark in this scholastic boilerplate. Quite the contrary: after the Neanderthal neo-papist Mr Blair, returning from abroad, Mr Cameron has emerged as the incarnation of Britain’s bullying class, to perform his role as mouthpiece for those who fear most that […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

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 […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

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 […]

Tittle Tattle

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 […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

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 […]

The Dispossessed: The Working Classes and their Instinct for Survival by Christophe Guilluy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] would carry it out isn’t specified. Is it just a return to the consensus politics typical of the three decades after 1945? Does he want fewer Clinton- Blair ‘modernisers’ and a more matter-a-fact class of politicians? Does the desire for ‘pragmatism’ mean telling people they can’t have everything? What modifications would he make to […]

Our Fight for Democracy: A History of Democracy in the United Kingdom by John Strafford

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] 1998 to 2001 and also on the board of the National Council for One Parent Families. In 1999 she was made a Labour peer by the Revd. Blair who had been introduced to her by her husband Peter Kellner, the former chairman and now president of YouGov. In June 2001 she became Parliamentary Under-Secretary […]

Simon review

Lobster Issue

[…] would carry it out isn’t specified. Is it just a return to the consensus politics typical of the three decades after 1945? Does he want fewer Clinton- Blair ‘modernisers’ and a more matter-a-fact class of politicians? Does the desire for ‘pragmatism’ mean telling people they can’t have everything? What modifications would he make to […]

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