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... this isn't true – Nexus, for one, often has both – I knew what he meant and took it as the compliment he intended; and though there are no UFOs in this issue, here is a smidgeon of political economics. For years now Chancellor Gordon Brown has taken the credit for the UK's low interest rates and low inflation. In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 27 September this year he said, for the umpteenth time: 'Britain today has the lowest inflation for thirty years.... [ ...
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... little effect, it does not mean that they went unnoticed at the time or that political leaders did not attempt to alter the economic and political outlook of the UK. Harold Wilson certainly appears to have arrived at very similar views on a number of topics. George Brown may have; some of his advisors at the Department of Economic Affairs in 1964-1966 certainly did.( [1]) I But James Callaghan, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1964-1967 and the Prime Minister 1976-1979, gave no indication of interest in such matters. The ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 47 Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way Colin Challen MP First, buy your senator It wasn't long after their election in 2000 that the business backgrounds of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney became mired in controversy. Cheney's business career was not as long as Bush's, but it personifies the role of crony capitalism endemic to U.S. politics. Cheney's role as Halliburton's (1) Chief Executive between 1995 and 2000, was but one ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 49 Gordon Brown Tom Bower London: HarperCollins, 2004, 20, h/b I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is little which is new in this tale of egos, rows, sulking, press character ...
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... In other words the Labour Party should be changed radically and should work closely with the US Democrats and the Australian Labour Party – but not any of the European left of centre parties. In January 1993 the British Embassy in Washington DC organised a visit for Blair and Brown. During this they met the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, who advised them that what the UK really needed was to have control of interest rates set by the Bank of England. They would duly carry out this policy 4 years later ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last¦ Contents¦ Next Issue 39 Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. 'Does Brown understand economics?' I asked him. 'Well, he reads lots of big books,' said Routledge. 'This is not the same thing.' Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic history? Or: does ...
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... Public Record Office. Hennessy was apparently astonished to see documentation of the conflict between the then Governor of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Cromer wanted- guess what?- cuts in public expenditure and higher interest rates. Gordon Brown would have said, 'It's already in our program, Lord Cromer,' but Wilson threatened to call a general election on the theme of the government or the Bank of England. Cromer backed down in a hurry. On 3 January 1997 the Guardian carrried a ...
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... . DiEugenio is very good indeed at this kind of detailed analysis and does the same thing here to Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot. The most striking single essay in the book isn't an essay at all, it is extracts from two speeches by Judge Joe Brown, one of the judges involved in the civil proceedings successfully brought by William Pepper against Lloyd Jowers and unnamed co-conspirators for the unlawful death of Martin Luther King. A black American, Judge Brown was too sympathetic to the plaintiffs in the case and was removed during ...
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... literary periodical. Marshall stuck to his guns and insisted that everything the programme had said was true. An abbreviated version of the story can be found in Robert Marshall, 'Wartime Spies and the Web of Deception', The Listener, 1 May 1986. Anthony Cave Brown, C: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill (New York: Macmillan, 1987), p. 511. Brown covers the story on pp. 498-513, and supports Marshall throughout. Anthony Cave Brown, Ibid. Brown ...
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... economic influence (or: their informal empire). Cue, notably, the Marshall Plan: Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the 'regulators'-- good old Irving Brown et al--- a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of 'the communist threat'. This left revisionist thesis, specifically the wide-spread belief on the European Left that ...
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