Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo et al

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Luciana Berger, Mike Gapes, Wes Streeting, Frank Field, Joan Ryan, Stella Creasy and John Mann; former Labour Party General Secretary Lord Triesman; New Labour figures including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their respective funding organisers, Lords Levy and Mendelsohn; as well as fellow peers Mandelson, Hain, Reid, Blunkett, Hughes, Cunningham and Winston. In July […]

Kantor – Bilderbergers – 89

Lobster Issue

[…] From this group, 42 people became prime ministers, presidents, or top representatives of international organizations. Examples include Canadian PMs Paul Martin and Stephen Harper; British PMs Tony Blair and Gordon Brown; German PMs Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz; Swedish PMs Stefan Löfven and Magdalena Andersson, Italian PM Enrico Letta; Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez; Austrian […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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.72 […]

Laissez faire as religion

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] a much bigger work, ‘The most dangerous people in the world’, which can be read at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.usa.misc/browse_ thread/thread/cddd8122fa018f85 Robert Henderson is a retired civil servant. His account of being harassed and smeared by the British state for the ‘offence’ of writing letters to Tony and Cherie Blair was in Lobster 45. Page 84 Winter 2009/10

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] to be paid for this is complicity in genocide.55 They are represented by the Conservatives, by a governing Labour Party which, especially since its takeover by Tony Blair and ‘New Labour’ in the mid-1990s, has placed the interests of this old British nation above those of the class it was created to represent,56 by […]

Britannia Unchained, by Kwasi Kwarteng , Elizabeth Truss et al

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] 2007, UK real GDP per hour grew faster than France, Germany and even the United States. (pp. 8/9) What, things were better under John Major and Tony Blair than during the Thatcher years? You might think this would give our authors pause, but it doesn’t. It all seemed very different at the turn of […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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.72 […]

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats (Clinton) and New Labour (Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was now Labour in […]

Ten Years Hard Labour by Chris Williamson

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) were the dilapidated remains of New Labour, the construct that had effected some positive change in its 13 years under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but which had steadily lost members and electoral support before its 2010 defeat.4 Williamson had campaigned to make Ed Miliband leader and for […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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.64 […]

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