[PDF file]: […] reckless sex life.) 1 Simon Freeman & Barrie Penrose, Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe (London: Bloomsbury, 1996) 2 Michael Bloch, Jeremy Thorpe (London: Little, Brown, 2014) There’s also a lot of material that he has left out. Let’s take but one example, that of Jack Straw, former president of the National […]
[PDF file]: […] by Epstein, launched his One Laptop per Child project in 2005. Addressing education and literacy in the non-developed world, and endorsed by many politicians (including notably, Gordon Brown), it ended in 2014 without coming anywhere near meeting its objectives. Similarly, a Global Hackathon involving Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Microsoft and many others, to ‘solve’ the […]
[PDF file]: […] Michael Gove is piffle compared to the fact that City-friendly policies damaged the British economy for Edward Heath in 1973/4 and reshaped it under Thatcher, Blair and Brown, destroying much of the manufacturing sector. It’s not that Mr McTague is entirely unaware of the City’s significance. He writes on p. 468: Britain did not […]
[PDF file]: […] had the air of a depressed man, knowing it may be too late to rebalance the UK economy and defeat the forces given freedom by Thatcher, Blair, Brown and successive governors of the Bank of England. Despite a positive reception and widespread reviews the book has not fired up resistance. But it has become […]
[PDF file]: […] Records of US Army Commands: Records Relating to Spandau Prison, 1947- 1987., DOD, Editor. 1987, National Archives and Records Administration, Tapes 1-36 77 Penn-Barwell, J., K. Brown, and C. Fries, ‘High velocity gunshot injuries to the extremities: management on and off the battlefield’, Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine, 2015. 8: pp. 312–317. […]
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.10 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.11 Hey Gordon, you were in […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party (PLP) were the dilapidated remains of New Labour, the construct that had effected some positive change in its 13 years under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but which had steadily lost members and electoral support before its 2010 defeat.4 Williamson had campaigned to make Ed Miliband leader and for a while was […]
[PDF file]: […] new report came across my email transom that reminded me of some harsh realities in today’s Middle East. It was the latest Costs of War report from Brown University— The CIA’s Army: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan. It stated, “the CIA is still running local militias in […]
[PDF file]: […] thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence.43 And yet barely […]
