[…] 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]: […] of, the Kincora situation. This report listed a wide range of Loyalist politicians and other personalities, including Sir Knox Cunningham QC MP, Mr Clifford Smith, Mr David Brown (editor of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s newspaper, the Protestant Telegraph), Mr Thomas Passmore and the Rev. Martin Smyth, both key figures in the Orange Order. There […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] Estes’ grandson.12 We can apparently hear Carter talking to Estes about Wallace and the assassination. The putative witness to that meeting of Carter and Estes, one Kyle Brown, unnamed by Estes in his memoir, had previously confirmed the conversation’s existence and some of its content.13 IRD Rory Cormac is one of the British academics […]
[PDF file]: […] and the young Miller became ‘a Horowitz acolyte’. Miller ‘was awed by Horowitz’s ideas’, and came to see ‘this country as a white-forged masterpiece, unfairly demonized by brown hordes’. (pp. 6, 7, 75, 77, 78) When he left school, Miller published a condemnation of it on Horowitz’s website as ‘Left-Wing’, as ‘an institution not […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] highly technical areas of public services, such as environmental monitoring, finance and digital technologies. This became apparent in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Blair/ Brown years, during the period of the Coalition government’s policy to slash spending on consultants. In one instance, a major rail franchise tender was withdrawn because 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.7 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.8 6 or . Peter Mandelson […]
