[PDF file]: […] the September 11 attacks led to that country’s invasion.Tony Blair himself is not a member of the Commons or Lords, a non-parliamentary status he shares with Gordon Brown and Jack Straw, both senior New Labour colleagues in his government at the time of 9/11.22 Those from that 2001 administration who were entitled to speak […]
[…] the authors’ attempts to identify ‘Wallace’. This was Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace, they discovered, one of LBJ’s entourage. He was identified for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who lived in Dallas and had independently concluded that Wallace was involved in the dirty deed (although she had no evidence). There was one little detail […]
[PDF file]: […] chronicles much more of the soundtrack of the resistance, but he also pays attention to the rival soundtrack, to the singers who supported the Vietnam War. James Brown, for example, was enthusiastic about entertaining the troops in Vietnam. Although the authorities were very reluctant to let him do so, in June 1968 the tour […]
[PDF file]: […] more apt title for a book charting the history of this glittering nexus and its detractors. The Bilderbergers are people who certainly know how to network. Gordon Brown attended in 1991. His boss at the time was John Smith, leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Bilderberg steering committee. Another attendee […]
[…] flow of cheap consumer products opened up by the mass industrialisation of East Asia. But what, plausibly, has more impact on consumer prices: a letter from Gordon Brown to the governor of the Bank of England, or 300 million Chinese moving from the countryside to work in factories? If you can buy a 50-inch […]
[…] 58 events which interest me and have been less well reported. This takes us to the core of the NuLab story, for it shows that the Blair- Brown administrations really did believe that private is always better than public. (How they must have hated the Labour Party!) Yet it still astounds me to read […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 wellbeing. From surveillance […]
[PDF file]: […] – an entirely private decision made against all the advice tendered, by a man who was never called on to answer for the consequences. (Rather like Gordon Brown in 2007). triumphant on all fronts. In the US more recently other works of this type have included Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America (2004) which […]
[PDF file]: […] Oswald was living at the time. During their journey toward the heart of the city, the young man (who was carrying a long slim package wrapped in brown paper, which he said contained ‘curtain rods’), chatted excitedly about President Kennedy’s impending trip to Dallas and tried to engage a reluctant Yates in conversation about […]
[PDF file]: […] Miller of the true extent of the ‘old boys network’ between the British government (or, more accurately, the British state) and banks.8 Cat and mice While Gordon Brown was on holiday in the summer the shop was being minded first by Harriet Harman and then by Peter Mandelson. Mandy did his annual hanging-out in […]
