The rise of New Labour

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[PDF file]: […] few which voted for Gould. Gould’s loss to Smith was the end of the anti-banker tendency in the Labour movement. Under John Smith, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown became shadow front bench spokesmen and were widely seen as the coming men. When John Smith died in 1994, Blair took over and NuLab began to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there was a natural evolution away from making things to ‘the knowledge economy’. Well, here we are. According to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there was a natural evolution away from making things to ‘the knowledge economy’. Well, here we are. According to […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] remain and I shall continue to remain, a strong supporter of the work of the Security Forces, as demonstrated by people like Alan Simpson, CID detective Johnston Brown who wrote Into the Dark (Dublin: Gill Publishing, 2006), plus thousands of other Security Force members who served honourably in Northern Ireland during the ‘Troubles’. I […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] fees as already existed. Even before Lord Falconer had finished his re-assessment, Mr Blair had resigned and the role of Prime Minister had been transferred to Gordon Brown. Given the historical rivalry between those successive PMs, there was surely a personal dimension to the remarks made by Gordon Brown during his speech ‘On Liberty’, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] likely, recent MRI scans suggest), hormones – but they are a very limited version of our species. Did he no ken? Let me recommend Simon Lee’s ‘Gordon Brown and the British Way of Risk-Based Modernization’.1 This is the author’s summary. ‘In Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, Gordon Brown has sought […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] Party, was Secretary of Common Cause from 1954-5621 (21), presumably from its inception, apparently in 1952: a piece in The Times announced Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and John Brown, ex-General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation as joint chairs. (DouglasHamilton turns up later in the 1950s as part of the de Courcy group […]

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[…] of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as ‘communism’s angel’ is amusing. But Mr du Berrier’s original report with the Rockefeller quotation in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] time.’ See . 6 For Kinnock and the Trotskyist IWC see The Times Guide to the Election 1970. South and Shoreditch after its sitting Labour MP Ron Brown defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).7 With the SDP/Liberal Alliance polling 50% at this point (and leading the polls continuously from October 1981 to April […]

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