Who let the dogs out?

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[PDF file]: […] Aquino ran when her husband – Marcos’ political rival – was murdered at Manila airport on his return to challenge the president.1 4 SMG sent Mark Malloch Brown, a journalist with a South African background who had worked for The Economist.1 5 Malloch Brown developed what SMG called a ‘backboard shot’: if one can’t […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

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[PDF file]: […] became his Shadow Chancellor in 2015, and he has a better grasp of Labour history. He had grown up during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and identified with their critics who had seen the party’s loss of members, confidence and popular support from the New Labour high point of 1997. Jones […]

The view from the bridge

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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

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[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] we are all here is due to one man’s action; Cameron’s obsessive arse kissing over the years of Rupert Murdoch. Tony Blair was pretty good, as was Brown. But Cameron was the Daddy….. Cameron wanted Rupert onside as he believed, quite wrongly in my view, that The Sun’s endorsement would help him to victory […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.49 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]

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[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.49 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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