The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] former senior Defence Intelligence officer (it now has three). Morrison gave an interview to the BBC in 2004 in which he said that when he heard Tony Blair claiming in 2002 that Iraq posed a ‘serious and current’ threat, he ‘could almost hear the collective raspberry going up around Whitehall.’ 19 That comment got […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] any congressional authorisation and funding’. Alongside the use of torture, the US Special Forces were let off the leash to use ‘assassination as a standard tactic’. The Blair government, and Jack Straw in particular, claim they knew absolutely nothing about any of this and only a complete cynic could possibly think otherwise. From that […]

Kantor – Bilderbergers – 89

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[…] 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

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[…] 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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold Story by James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] the availability of this weaponry allowed loyalist killings to exceed republican killings by 1992. Cory ordered that independent public enquiries should be held into the killings. The Blair government responded by passing the Inquiries Act (2005), something strongly opposed by Cory, who noted ‘For example, the Minister, the actions of whose ministry was to […]

The crisis

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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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.53 […]

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