[PDF file]: […] worth mentioning here that in 2009, even though it had never been a British colony or dependency, Rwanda was invited by the New Labour government of Gordon Brown to join the British Commonwealth. Its membership was opposed by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative because of the regime’s human rights record, but Rwanda was allowed […]
[PDF file]: […] properly shocked by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along the way Swire observes the servile performances of Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Jack Straw and David Miliband – none willing to challenge the determination of Washington to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya. He is […]
[PDF file]: […] the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford; and Mark Blyth, Professor of International Economics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Rhode Island, have all praised it.5 There is a summary of the book’s thesis on the LSE website6 and a pseudonymous review from a Scottish […]
[…] 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]: […] Mike Gapes, Wes Streeting, Frank Field, Joan Ryan, Stella Creasy and John Mann; former Labour Party General Secretary Lord Triesman; New Labour figures including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their respective funding organisers, Lords Levy and Mendelsohn; as well as fellow peers Mandelson, Hain, Reid, Blunkett, Hughes, Cunningham and Winston. In July 2019 these […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] now plan to control the entire non-EU world so that they can continue to extract raw materials and consume at their present rate. A lot of skinny brown, black and yellow people are going to die to enable a lot of fat Americans to stay fat. This new American empire will not be sustainable […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.’ Ambition Lord save us from people who just want to be the big I-am. We had Gordon Brown, who wanted to be the Big Yin. Gordon joined Labour and apparently was a socialist. Then he sniffed the wind and realised that he had to […]
[PDF file]: […] in the region, a good subject for an experienced and knowledgeable journalist with an 11 Milne pp. 208-9. 12 See Genrikh Borovik, The Philby Files (London: Little, Brown, 1994) pp. 368-9. 13 Milne pp. 230-1, 235; Borovik (see note 12), p. 284 5 extensive network of well-placed contacts.14 Overall, his chief value to the […]
