[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]
[PDF file]: […] his was sent by Dan Atkinson, who wondered what was ‘out of the question’? From recently-declassified US discussions about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. General Brown: I have one minor point that sort of parallels what we have been talking about. This Turkish opium issue. Secretary Kissinger: Let’s shut up a week […]
[…] in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer […]
[PDF file]: […] burying the bodies” of the murders of Lyndon Johnson that Caro will never tell you about. For 20 years Robert Caro never interviewed key LBJ mistress Madeleine Brown or Billie Sol Estes who planned murders with LBJ. Caro never mentions the revelations of LBJ lawyer Barr McClellan nor will Caro address the transcendently important […]
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]
[PDF file]: Dr Sargant and Mr Sleep The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal Jon Stock London: The Bridge Street Press/Little Brown, 2025 416 pp., bibliography, notes, index, £25 h/b. Anthony Frewin In the late 1950s and 1960s Dr William Sargant was the media’s go-to expert on everything – from psychiatry and mental illness to […]
[PDF file]: […] also meant that Phun City was highly disorganised: sanitation was poor and there was nowhere to shelter from the constant rain. The poetry festival (fronted by Pete Brown and William Burroughs) was due to be held in an inflatable dome but the dome failed to inflate and the event was held instead in a […]
[PDF file]: […] could never be met. Assuming they thought about it, the creation of such pseudo-intellectual formulae, by an unelected adviser, was actually quite an insult by Blair and Brown to the UK’s many natural European allies. One of the book’s endorsers, Lawrence Freedman, had a hand in devising the 1999 Blair Doctrine, which set out […]
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.31 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying 30 or . Peter Mandelson was Thatcherite number 3. 31 11 the slightest awareness that he had any […]
