How our politicians helped to kill UK manufacturing

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] rate inflicted pain on industry, and having given up control over the setting of interest rates to the Bank of England on taking office, there was little Brown could do about this.’ (p. 249) By the time Labour won the 1997 election, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair had learned the central mantras of neo-liberalism: […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian Socialist, A H Halsey, the eminent sociologist, had […]

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[…] Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian Socialist, A H Halsey, the eminent sociologist, had […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] standing down as an MP evoked a predictable chorus of acclamation from Labour Party supporters and derision from its opponents. None of the comments I read portrayed Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American […]

The Two Goulds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] chair of the committee dealing with the economy, industrial strategy and public ownership. This group included Gould’s researcher Nigel Stanley, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Gordon Brown and newly elected MP, Ken Livingstone. John Eatwell, Neil Kinnock’s advisor on economics, attended ‘as an observer and as a link between the committee and Neil’s […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and both were made peers in Gordon Brown’s dissolution list. Sue Nye, who has served most Labour leaders since Jim Callaghan, was the woman blamed by Gordon Brown for introducing him to the ‘bigoted’ Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy. She has reportedly worked for free for Brown for years, money presumably not being a pressing […]

The two Goulds

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[…] chair of the committee dealing with the economy, industrial strategy and public ownership. This group included Gould’s researcher Nigel Stanley, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Gordon Brown and newly elected MP, Ken Livingstone. John Eatwell, Neil Kinnock’s advisor on economics, attended ‘as an observer and as a link between the committee and Neil’s […]

Vassal State: How America Runs Britain by Angus Hanton

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Britain Angus Hanton London: Swift Press, 2024, £25.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b John Booth A 10-minute drive from the North Queensferry home of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the second-largest Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the United Kingdom. Long in the planning during New Labour’s years in government, its 1.5 million square-foot premises opened […]

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 […]

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