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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last| Contents| Next Issue 50 The Blairs and their Court Francis Beckett and David Hencke London: Aurum Press, 2004, £18.99, h/b John Newsinger According to Beckett and Hencke, in the late 1980s Nigel Lawson could never understand why Tony Blair was a member of the Labour Party rather than of the Conservative Party. This question subsequently occurred to a growing number of Labour Party members and the answer they came up with saw tens of thousands of them becoming ex-Labour Party members. More important, of course was not why Blair himself was a member of the Labour Party but how someone so ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 395 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-53.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last| Contents| Next Issue 52 Yo, Blair! The unspeakable Martin Kettle of The Guardian is a political journalist who has been pretty close to, and supportive of, New Labour since the 1990s. His article 'The special relationship that squandered a noble cause' (27 May 2006) opened with this: 'The long arc of Tony Blair's rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys to Washington. He went there first with Gordon Brown in January 1993...' Which is wrong, of course. As was reported in The Observer, Blair first went to Washington in 1986( [1] ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 384 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-16.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 43) Summer 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 43 Blair and Israel In January 1994, three months before John Smith's death, the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair, with wife Cherie Booth, went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government's expense- a trip, incidentally, neither the Sopel nor Rentoul biographies of Blair mentioned. (1) Blair had always been sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with Board of Deputies of British Jews President Eldred Tabachnik, (2) and had joined the Labour Friends of Israel on becoming an MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 372 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 48) Winter 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 48 Our leader Simon Matthews Blair Anthony Seldon London: Free Press (Simon& Shuster), 2004, h/b, £20 What a tome! At 755 pages, with 40 chapters and 3000 plus footnotes, the book is neatly divided into chapters on either specific historical periods or significant individuals. The picture that emerges of Blair is striking in its variance from much of his public image but not necessarily to his disadvantage. He is a rather more mundane figure than the PR machine would have us believe. Early Blair The PM had no great connection with the Labour Party ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 328 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-34.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 45 Harassing Robert Henderson In 1997 Robert Henderson, a retired civil servant, wrote to the then leader of the Opposition Tony Blair to ask for his help. Eventually he wrote a dozen or so letters to Blair and Cherie Booth. Blair then tried to have him prosecuted but the legal authorities refused to act. Blair or someone close to him then set the tabloids on him and he was smeared in the Daily Mirror (also used to smear the journalist Greg Palast) and Daily Record as a stalker and a racist. This was discussed in Lobsters 37 and 39 and 43 and Henderson's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 257 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-29b.htm
... in with lucrative publishing deals and get their version of history into print as quickly as possible. Thus has the demise of Labour in May 2010 been marked. The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, stating-the-obvious-at-all- times tales of Peter Mandelson; the fantastic, optimistic and daytime TV-oriented (and thus immensely popular) narrative of Tony Blair; Jonathan Powell's treatise on Machiavellianism; and the diarised compendium of sad little stories from Chris Mullin, as he crept away from the political stage after 2005. A particularly interesting work, though, is that written by Deborah Mattinson, a major courtier to New Labour and an observer of many of its foibles and obsessions over 15 years.1 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 234 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... foreign policy by Mark Curtis could not be better timed. With more than a million Britons on the streets of London protesting against the Iraq war earlier this year there is a potentially large audience for a critical review of what led this country to that invasion. Even his title, Web of Deceit, catches the growing public perception of Tony Blair in leading the country into war on a false prospectus. Coming after The Ambiguities of Power in 1995 and The Great Deception in 1998, this is Curtis's third trawl through government documents from the perspective of those at the receiving end of British foreign policy. In the earlier two he dug beneath the Cold War double talk and obfuscation of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 201 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last| Contents| Next Issue 39 Right meets Left The Robert Henderson/Tony Blair story. Having failed to persuade any section of the British political class then in power to do anything about a wrong he had suffered at the hands of the media, Robert Henderson wrote letters to the then Leader of the Opposition, Tony Blair- 13 letters in all. This is Henderson's version of what happened next; this is his view of what he thinks is an enormous scandal: 'We have a Prime Minister who [while leader of the Opposition] engaged in a conspiracy with his wife, a QC, to pervert the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 165 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-11.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 53) Summer 2007 Last| Contents| Next Issue 53 Blairusconi: populism and elite rule Mike Small Tony Blair will be remembered not just for the slaughter in Iraq, and the subsequent collapse of Labour in Scotland in face of a resurgent SNP, but as the Labour leader who could have forged common links across Europe but chose to side with one of the continent's most despised figures. Charles Clarke, one of the last in a long line of damaged ministerial casualties, articulated this clearly when he broke ranks after being ejected from the Cabinet. Clarke, a Europhile, stated: 'The relationships with many of the European countries are really not ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 165 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-37.htm
... bureaucratic restructurings that have passed for 'reform' in the public sector. More seriously than any of this are two master-delusions: the one suggesting individual debt can be run up seemingly without end and the one that assumes protection of the environment is entirely compatible with limitless economic growth. Someone else will have this 'legacy' to deal with as Mr Blair heads off into his well-paid ex-premiership status. The ten-year long weekend from reality will be over. Jonathan Bloch: The day after Blair was elected in 1997 I joined the Liberal Democrat Party. His election led me to take this step for two reasons: firstly, I feared for the state of civil liberties in the country and also ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 160 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-13.htm
