Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] House Select Committee on Assassinations, May 16, 1978, 168-69, available at . Brod was actually recruited by Angleton in Italy in 1944; CIA memo by Jerrold B. Brown for Inspector General, July 1, 1975, re ‘Possible Questionable Activity’. For more on Brod and Angleton, see Gus Russo, The Outfit (New York: Bloomsbury, 2001), p. […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole.” He got that right.)’ 2 City lobbying H ow this has […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] reactions to his first Cabinet, to the government of all the talents concept, to his healthcare policy . . . and to his education policy.’ 4 Later, Brown would cast his long-term pollster Deborah Mattinson out of his magic circle. She seemed too insistent on telling him things he didn’t want to know, not […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] and troops? While these were undoubtedly factors, they affected how the unwinnable war unfolded rather than having any direct effect on the inevitable outcome. The Blair and Brown governments deserve censure for getting involved at all, rather than for somehow losing the war. It is worth briefly noticing here the dramatic falling out between […]