[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 […]
[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’, […]
[…] 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 27 28 or 29 30 See, for example, or . 31 9 from […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 RiskBased Modernization’.1 This is the author’s summary. ‘In Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, Gordon Brown has sought […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] particularly those who knew Jack Ruby. Using the PDF version, I skimmed through it looking for interesting snippets. And there are many. Take ‘The voice of Kyle Brown’. The name rang a faint bell: somewhere in the Billy Sol Estes story Estes recalls that he had conversations with Johnson’s chief operator, Cliff Carter. He […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] p. 222. 12 6 governments condoning, indeed complicit, in a protracted massacre. The British response to Goldstone By the time Operation Cast Lead was carried out, Gordon Brown had replaced Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. Brown was absolutely committed to supporting Israel and to keeping in step with the United States but, at […]
[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 […]
