[…] Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 18 And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like […]
[…] fascinating Osborne/Bowen is assembled at 5 See . There is also a Wiki entry on the organisation. Page 35 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 mistress, the late Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning 6 and the version attributed to the late ‘Loy’ Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor, originally a book and now […]
[PDF file]: […] What ‘contrived’ means for Morley, I don’t know. As for ‘conjectural’, there is good conjecture and bad. The witness to whom Morley refers is the late Madeleine Brown, one of LBJ’s mistresses. In fact she is peripheral to the story. She was useful in the beginning, when Glen Sample and Mark Collom kicked off […]
[PDF file]: […] same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads us in […]
[…] 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.18 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[…] 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.14 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[…] Ed Balls’ speech to conference on 22 September. The penny has dropped that some sort of apology needs to be made for the mess he and Gordon Brown created when they were last in office. This would play well with the electorate: a politician’s admission of error is so rare that it would be […]
[PDF file]: […] New Labour government was through Gordon Brown’s younger brother Andrew, who joined EDF Energy, as head of media relations. (He is now director of corporate communications.) Andrew Brown previously worked for Weber Shandwick, where Philip Dewhurst – now Director of Corporate Affairs at British Nuclear Fuels – was the UK Chief Executive. (Private Eye […]
[PDF file]: […] Will Hutton, it was briefly adopted by Blair – not that he had thought its implications through; but it sounded good – and was kiboshed immediately by Brown. (Campbell presents Blair as to the left of Brown throughout this book.) The second is a passing reference to the fund-raising activities of Lord Levy. Several […]
[…] at or . Author interview at or . 5 3 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.6 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
