[…] garbage. Let me leave poor Mr Draper aside for two other examples. Ben Lucas of Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn (known as ‘LLM’) learned that on June 11, Gordon Brown would announce the creation of a new housing inspectorate. Lucas passed this on to his affected clients. He gave me other examples of what he called […]
[…] back then, and I seem to remember noting this in Lobster, it was Geoff Mulgan who was responsible for the Labour programme of re-nationalisation, while helping out Brown. Hindsight carries with it some sort tang of self-awareness and here it is not just our leaders that are flying blind. I’ve never found anything of […]
[…] of the provision of funds and the attempted coordination of goals.(30) What has not yet been made sufficiently clear is the full role and influence of Irving Brown in the setting-up of the CCF in 1950-51.(31) Brown held a crucial position within the ERP-CIA-AFL-CCF linkage. Saunders’ treatment of Brown as a useful CIA asset […]
[…] interview in Steamshovel Press, no. 8, 1993. Her version of the File is available from her direct at PO Box 1292, Cragsmoor, NY 12420, USA for $14.95. Brown, Walt. The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Carroll and Graf/Richard Gallen, 1992. xix plus 651 pp. Bibliography, index. An honest work that attempts to […]
At a CBI conference in November last year Gordon Brown called for a ‘world-wide campaign in support of globalisation and its benefits. He said the anti-globalisation and protectionist forces ‘fail to recognise the great truth that free trade, open markets and flexibility are the preconditions of modern economic success’.Does he really believe this? The […]
[…] Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA’ in the American journal Labor History, vol. 39, No. 1, 1998 (pp. 25-42) Using the recently opened Irving Brown papers, as well as other new sources and interviews, Carew has plotted some of the activities of the CIA in the US and European labour movement […]
[…] Plan: Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the […]
[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]
[…] former Conservative Central Office researcher who was then editorial page editor of the Independent newspaper was one of two British journalists present, the other being Yasmin Alibhai Brown, then an editor of the New Statesman and now a freelance writer whose work appears widely. The purpose of the 1988 gathering – as of all […]
[…] limited success no thanks to the rather naive approach to business of the Leader’s immediate circle. Geoff Mulgan was then (1992) a research assistant to Gordon Brown and LFIG was close to the John Smith/Gordon Brown Scots network, though Blair was very much in the frame even at that time as a rising […]
