Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] man now working alongside – and possibly replacing in time – Alastair Campbell in running the Prime Minister’s spin machine. Blair’s chief of staff is former Washington embassy diplomat Jonathan Powell. Recruited to the BAP in 1991 along with new TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, Powell has praised the organisation for ‘taking the working […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] marketing: i.e. my pal’s views of them, coupled with his professional standing, have ‘legs’…. By chance, I also met two principled American-Arab diplomats attached to the US embassy to Britain, at the London office of Al-Jazeera. Their eyes red with exhaustion/anguish, at the height of the US/UK invasion of Iraq, they had been given […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] completed Operation Storm (carried out with U.S. assistance). The room was full of journalists and things were just about to start when a official from the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb suddenly entered and announced that a press conference was about to begin at the embassy where information would be released on aerial photos of […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] the CIA.(20) TUCETU’s roots lie in the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (LCTU), set up in 1976 by the late Joe Godson, labour attaché at the US embassy and highly active in Labour politics from the Gaitskell period onwards. As TUCETU put it, LCTU was formed ‘in order to develop a better understanding of […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] programme broadcast on Channel 4. That programme included testimony from Dr Hugh Thomas on the analysis of the wound which killed Fletcher which suggested that the Libyan embassy was not the source of the shot.(5) Does the deal done with the Libyans include the rubbishing of those who never believed the Libyan story in […]