British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] with extremist elements. But he has lately thrown in his lot with Victor Gollancz who as you probably know has severed all connection with the Communist Party. Blair undoubtedly (has) strong Left Wing views but he is a long way from orthodox Communism’. As Ogilvie noted, it was evident from Orwell’s recent writings (this […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] anniversary of the war approached, a number of significant media outlets started running articles explaining that although it had turned out Iraq had no WMD, Bush and Blair could be forgiven for believing that it did. This is because throughout the period up to March 2003 Saddam Hussein and his government were bluffing that […]

view from 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.3 […]

A Radical History of Britain by Edward Vallance

Lobster Issue

[…] Iraq invasion, told him ‘that whatever the size of the march the Government would not have changed its mind.’ Which is what we all suspected anyway. Tony Blair, Dubya’s political catamite, knew what was expected of him and was determined to deliver it. 199 Summer 2010 that proclaims itself to be a study of […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] for eight days work and the venture capital outfit, Vantage Point, paid him £92,000 for four and a half days work. He seemed to be the classic Blair clone, busy enriching himself while supposedly representing a poor working class area, creating that interesting New Labour phenomenon whereby the local Labour MP is one of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Thinking His initial submission can be found at . 11 7 fi 
 subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.11 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No celebrity […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] in January 2020, flags were flown at half-mast on public buildings in Britain, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Johnson flew out to attend the funeral and Tony Blair praised the dead tyrant as one of the wisest, most generous men of modern times, a veritable paragon. Such was, and is, the value placed on […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] Criminal Court (ICC). Invading Iraq caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. To date the ICC has not issued arrest warrants for George Bush, Dick Cheney or Tony Blair. Had it done so, the world might have taken its action about Putin more seriously. ‘U.S.-NATO Involvement in the 2014 Ukraine Coup and Maidan Massacre: The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Robert Henderson, who had Special Branch sicced on him and then was the subject of a press smear campaign for the sin of writing letters to Tony Blair (see Lobster 39) submitted evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the way the media had treated him.1 1 Leveson did not call him to testify. (No […]

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