[…] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]
[PDF file]: […] and the two men became friends.5 A month later the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, died, and Blair won the leadership election contest with Gordon Brown – in some accounts with financial 1 See for example . 2 See the profile of Michael Levy in the Daily Express 26 June 2000. 3 […]
[…] area’s strategic importance through its geographical location, part of that history was linked to many generations of Britons through religious practice and belief.7 The Rev Dr John Brown, father of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for example, was a Christian Zionist who played an important role in linking the Church of Scotland through frequent […]
[PDF file]: […] High-Living Baker Boy Scandalizes the Capital’, p. 32. It referred to her as ‘the German call girl’. 48 Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997), pp. 387-390. the Soviet embassy.49 To Hoover, this intelligence recalled the sensational Profumo affair then grabbing headlines in Great Britain. The British scandal eventually prompted […]
[PDF file]: […] received view of New Labour’s rush to the till-deathdo-us-part section of those vows has at its core the perpetual 1 Sunday Telegraph 3 March 2002 acrimony between Brown and Blair, which paralysed decisionmaking and split the party, the Parliamentary Labour Party, and the Civil Service. Of course there is ample evidence to support that […]
[PDF file]: […] the economy than Labour.43 The lack of confidence in Labour is apparently the result of the economic crash of 2007/8. But the then NuLab government of Gordon Brown was following Conservative polices at the time of the crash: the market is magic, we need no regulation of the City and the domestic manufacturing economy […]
[PDF file]: […] big problem no-one wants to discuss – but we do apparently make some nice weapons. And Saudi Arabia buys them. The late Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary while Brown was Chancellor, had access to the same information and resigned in opposition to the approaching war. He said in his resignation speech: ‘Why is it now […]
[PDF file]: […] the poor and the trade unions was electorally popular way back in their days in Arkansas. For a British reader this tale has resonance, for the Blair/ Brown faction within the Labour Party copied the Clintons’ ‘New Democrats’ strategy right down the line,1 the only real difference being that the opposition to the changes […]
[…] free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.3 It was all […]
[PDF file]: […] Bernard Connolly, The Rotten Heart of Europe (London: Faber and Faber, 1995) John Laughland, The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European idea (London: Little and Brown, 1997) Christopher Booker and Richard North, The Great Deception: The True Story of Britain and the European Union (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) 6 5 globalisation. Most recently […]
