[PDF file]: […] the English political stage seem able to contemplate changes to this. Certainly the efforts of Labour pre-2010 do not inspire confidence. Great store was set by Gordon Brown in 2009 in the establishment of the International Centre for Financial Regulation was announced. Designed to map out the future of responsible capitalism, it came with […]
[PDF file]: […] and interests are not beneficial and are opposed to the armed forces. The unit is well placed to do this because its members are civilians.”’ When Gordon Brown dips into the bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest […]
[…] years 8 See for example Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. 9 These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms […]
[PDF file]: […] 10 See for example 11 Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms set […]
[PDF file]: […] knew better than his superiors what the Arabs planned to do’.102 98 Golan (see note 90) p. 42. 99 Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, (New York: Little, Brown & Co.) 1982, p. 450. 100 Ibid. p. 459. 101 Alistair Horne, Kissinger’s Year: 1973 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009), p. 228. Uri Bar-Joseph and Jack […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Orwell describes how the so-called anti-fascists (as in today’s Antifa) eventually prove themselves to be the real fascists’. (p. 219) He seriously compares Antifa to the Nazi Brown Shirts and to the Ku Klux Klan – and, in doing so, manages to ignore the fact that both the contemporary US neo-Nazis and the KKK […]
[PDF file]: […] obtained from the ‘sniper’s nest’ from 1 The group consisted of Richard Bartholomew and John Frazer Harrison in Austin and Barr McClellan, then based in Houston. Walt Brown was recruited for the purpose of fronting the press conference at which the information was released. (Information from Richard Bartholomew.) which Kennedy was supposedly shot. The […]
[PDF file]: […] the UK’s underlying issues. After the Iraq war and the banking crisis there was little shine left on the New Labour brand. The successors to Blair and Brown were left to pick up the English and Welsh pieces, Scotland by then having shed much of its 20th century loyalty to Labour. Corbyn revived the […]
[…] He’s travelled a fair bit of the world and knows a lot of law. He brings both together in a clearly written, heavyweight assault on Blair and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance […]
