[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] question. All they would have to do is shut up Tom Watson MP! Indeed, Murdoch has actually let it be known that he wanted to back Gordon Brown at the general election, but was persuaded by young James and Rebekah Brooks that Cameron was the coming man. This, one suspects, is a decision that […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old Labour. He says nationalising Lloyds/HBOS was ‘the last thing I wanted…. bringing with it all the […]
[…] Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 18 And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like […]
[PDF file]: […] of two world wars and the previous destruction of 400 years of slavery and colonialism, white folks were threatened by an explosion in the number of ‘ brown people’. Of course the book did not use such explicit language but anyone who read the list of countries could see that what was to be […]
[PDF file]: […] to accept. Into Holloway prison Putting a transgender spy into a Holloway prison cell alongside Elizabeth Forsyth appears to have involved a huge expenditure, including an MI6 brown envelope full of cash to pay for Olivia’s private gynaecological surgery at the Nuffield Hospital in Chester; repayment of embezzled cash to the Manchester timber merchant; […]
[PDF file]: […] to accept. Into Holloway prison Putting a transgender spy into a Holloway prison cell alongside Elizabeth Forsyth appears to have involved a huge expenditure, including an MI6 brown envelope full of cash to pay for Olivia’s private gynaecological surgery at the Nuffield Hospital in Chester; repayment of embezzled cash to the Manchester timber merchant; […]
[PDF file]: […] What ‘contrived’ means for Morley, I don’t know. As for ‘conjectural’, there is good conjecture and bad. The witness to whom Morley refers is the late Madeleine Brown, one of LBJ’s mistresses. In fact she is peripheral to the story. She was useful in the beginning, when Glen Sample and Mark Collom kicked off […]
[PDF file]: […] same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads us in […]
