The view from the bridge

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[…] the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.2 0 Changes begun under Neil Kinnock were continued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when they became more or less joint party leaders in 1994 and then took office in 1997. Several wars, the banking crisis (and the longest recession […]

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Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the London Borough of Havering.4 Through his extensive Labour Party connections, his tireless advocacy for the north east and his public relations work, Smith met George Brown MP. In October 1964 Brown, deputy leader of the Labour Party and newly appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs, offered Smith an important position at the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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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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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

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[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.66 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] firms that they are believed to have raped and pillaged would be unthinkable in the wake of the demise of former prime minister and City cheerleader, Gordon Brown. Especially given that Umunna, 35, purports to support small businesses and even sent a volley of tweets to support small businesses in the Streatham area of […]

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[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn’t support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the shmuck got right – there was no […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Gordon Brown’s book, Beyond The Crash (London: Simon and Schuster, 2010), which I finally picked up off my shelves after ignoring it for years. I looked at Brown to see if he had answered the question: having bailedout the failed UK banks, adding £136 billion to the national debt in the process,9 why did […]

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