[…] sector internal markets and not all the latter are bad anyway. The Sunday Times, 30 January 2005. Lord Browne’s speech, ‘appeared to align him with Chancellor Gordon Brown…… BP later sought to tone down is remarks and dismiss any idea that he was criticising the Prime Minister.’ The Guardian 28 January 2005. It cannot […]
[…] Labour’s ……..fixation on finance, which accounts for only 7.9% of GDP.’ The context: 7.9% of GDP is slightly more than tourism and about half of manufacturing. Here’s Brown in 2004, giving the annual address as the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the City. ‘Let me thank you first for the scale of the contribution […]
[…] Europe’ by the European Movement in January, in Brussels.(21) Also early in 1964, F. Bialas, the President of the ICFTUE, and T. Philippovich, the Secretary, met Irving Brown for a discussion of the activities of ICFTUE and examination of various aspects of the struggle of the ‘free’ trade union movement against ‘the Communist dictators’.(22) […]
[…] fullest account preceeding the present work. But why include names like J. Edgar Hoover, LBJ, John Connally, and others who simply died of old age years later? BROWN, WALT. The J.F.K. Assassination Quiz Book: Test Your Knowledge. Santa Barbara, CA: Open Archive Press, 1995. 203 pps. Foreword by Cyril H. Wecht and Gary L. […]
[…] For a party already £20m in debt, Labour’s reported spend of £1m on the autumn election-that-never-was doesn’t chime well with the prudence on which Prime Minister Gordon Brown built his reputation. The man tasked with sorting out the financial mess now that Lord Levy has followed Tony Blair into the sunset is his old […]
[…] in other parts of the world, (The Guardian 5 October 2002); Lord Bell/lack of ‘Chinese walls’ (Observer 17 December 2006); lock-in: Saudi Arabia will wait for Gordon Brown to become Prime Minister before signing the deal; name generation – always an important arm of political PR/propaganda: Saudi Arabia’s missiles are called ‘Al Salaam’ – […]
[…] FBI under the Freedom of Information Acts. Published: Documenti Diplomatici Italiani (DDI) Documents on German Foreign Policy (DGFP) Nicholas Bethell, The War Hitler Won (1972) Anthony Cave Brown, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Menzies (1988) Richard Cockett, Twilight of Truth (1989) John Costello, Ten Days that Saved the West (1991) Richard Griffiths, […]
[…] thought crossed my mind during the phoney leadership war in the days before the Labour Party conference when Toynbee switched her allegiance to David Miliband from Gordon Brown. (We are talking ancient history, of course: of times BC, Before Crisis, when the PM had not become saviour of the economic world.) In the same […]
[…] solved in early May. Who was the author of the ‘five economic tests’ which the British economy has to pass before adopting the Euro? Obviously not Gordon Brown: this was well beyond oor Gordie in 1997. My candidate? The Treasury, bent on keeping the UK out. Not even them. According to Charlie Whelan, Brown’s […]
The big switch Keeping track of the developments in the JFK assassination is something like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and pieces. […]
