[PDF file]: […] South Shields, deep within New Labour’s North-East redoubt. Balls, with no journalistic background, landed a leader-writer job with the Financial Times before becoming Treasury adviser to Gordon Brown. Then, like Miliband with no experience of electoral politics, he was parachuted into a former mining seat in Yorkshire in 2005 near to the one his […]
[PDF file]: […] a small majority, few predicted the results that trickled in on 18 June 1970 – Heath winning with an overall majority of 30. Labour casualties included George Brown (deputy leader), Sir Dingle Foot (Solicitor General), Anthony Greenwood (Minister of Housing) and a significant number of less prominent personalities – Woodrow Wyatt, Stan Newens, Robert […]
[PDF file]: […] proved you knew why those taboos were important and could be trusted to place an ironic fig leaf over the offending areas.’ On non-graduate comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown: ‘Like Bernard Manning, he was simply not acceptable in polite society.’ On audiences cheering Brown’s remarks on asylum seekers: ‘And he was quite clear he meant […]
[PDF file]: […] of MI6 John Scarlett and ex-Blair chief of staff Jonathan Powell. Portland figures in addition to Campbell and Allan were Powell’s brother Chris; Martin Sheehan, a Gordon Brown PR man and Steve Morris, a one-time Blair adviser. The third Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater, who was special envoy to Blair after long service to […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Ascherson, ‘On Tom Nairn’, London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 4, 16 February 2023, p. 12. See also Anthony Barnett, ‘Deciding Britain’s Future: Tom Nairn, Gordon Brown, Marxism and Nationalism’, Open Democracy, 30 January, 2022, or . The ‘NairnAnderson thesis’ can be found in, for example, Perry Anderson, ‘Origins of the Present Crisis’ […]
[PDF file]: […] most popular man at BSkyB’, 11 November 2011, . 50 See David Rothkopf, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, (New York: Little, Brown, 2008). 51 ‘Masters of the World’, Daily Mirror, 10 October 1997. (Barber), and credited with ‘tremendous dynamism while staying resolutely behind the scenes’ (Wullschlager).5 2 But […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.3 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
