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... Contents Lobster 60 Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind.... Simon Matthews N ot so long ago the end of a government would be marked by the publication of a couple of ministerial diaries and some memoirs trickling into the public domain within 2-3 years of its demise. Today any change of administration is followed immediately by a slew of books, as its participants cash in with lucrative publishing deals and get their version of history into print as quickly as possible. Thus has the demise of Labour in May 2010 been marked. The accounts that have appeared include the absurdly self-centred, stating-the-obvious-at-all- times tales of Peter Mandelson; the fantastic, optimistic and daytime ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 483 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-032.pdf
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way Colin Challen MP First, buy your senator It wasn't long after their election in 2000 that the business backgrounds of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney became mired in controversy. Cheney's business career was not as long as Bush's, but it personifies the role of crony capitalism endemic to U.S. politics. Cheney's role as Halliburton's (1) Chief Executive between 1995 and 2000, was but one connection among many in the long history of Halliburton's intimate reliance on politicians and government. In appointing his Vice Presidential running mate, Bush was said to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 450 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-19.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Gordon Brown Tom Bower London: HarperCollins, 2004, £20, h/b I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is little which is new in this tale of egos, rows, sulking, press character assassination, shunning, and internecine struggle between two gangs, Brown's and Blair's, it useful to be reminded of the centrality of Geoffrey Robinson's money ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 312 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-40.htm
... was the only magazine in which you would find economics and UFOs. Though this isn't true – Nexus, for one, often has both – I knew what he meant and took it as the compliment he intended; and though there are no UFOs in this issue, here is a smidgeon of political economics. For years now Chancellor Gordon Brown has taken the credit for the UK's low interest rates and low inflation. In his speech to the Labour Party conference on 27 September this year he said, for the umpteenth time: 'Britain today has the lowest inflation for thirty years.... [and] the lowest interest rates for forty years...' Brown ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 265 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-36.htm
... unresolved to this day. Although this may mean that his views ultimately had little effect, it does not mean that they went unnoticed at the time or that political leaders did not attempt to alter the economic and political outlook of the UK. Harold Wilson certainly appears to have arrived at very similar views on a number of topics. George Brown may have; some of his advisors at the Department of Economic Affairs in 1964-1966 certainly did.( [1]) I But James Callaghan, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1964-1967 and the Prime Minister 1976-1979, gave no indication of interest in such matters. The recent death of Callaghan and the continuing controversies about his legacy, to the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 206 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-21.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last| Contents| Next Issue 39 Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. 'Does Brown understand economics?' I asked him. 'Well, he reads lots of big books,' said Routledge. 'This is not the same thing.' Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic history? Or: does he understand economic politics? In any case, I would have been asking a question to which I knew the answer. Brown knows little of British ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 171 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-01.htm
... Contents What went wrong, Gordon Brown? How the dream job turned sour Edited by Colin Hughes London: The Guardian, 2010, £8.99 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, £8.99 (UK) Tom Easton It's too early to say much about the Lib-Con government, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 155 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-187.pdf
... service personnel seeking equity in pensions. Hundreds of veterans, some in wheelchairs, had assembled by the Ministry of Defence for their dignified lobbying of MPs, but a Lord Levy LFI fundraiser at the Banqueting Suite between the MoD and the Cenotaph was where the heavy police and Community Security Trust presence took precedence. LFI guest of honour was Gordon Brown. Seen scuttling up Whitehall to the party was MacShane's fellow LFI policy council member Nick Brown, the still baby-faced former engineering union leader Lord Bill Jordan, and former Labour party chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead. Eric Joyce MP, the former Army officer wheeled out to defend New Labour's military interventions when 'no minister is available', serves ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 137 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-07.htm
... the world in searching out the way forward....'. In other words the Labour Party should be changed radically and should work closely with the US Democrats and the Australian Labour Party – but not any of the European left of centre parties. In January 1993 the British Embassy in Washington DC organised a visit for Blair and Brown. During this they met the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, who advised them that what the UK really needed was to have control of interest rates set by the Bank of England. They would duly carry out this policy 4 years later.( 4) (Did Blair ever think of visiting the EU in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 118 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-34.htm
... the latest batch of government files released under the 30 year rule at the Public Record Office. Hennessy was apparently astonished to see documentation of the conflict between the then Governor of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer, and Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Cromer wanted- guess what?- cuts in public expenditure and higher interest rates. Gordon Brown would have said, 'It's already in our program, Lord Cromer,' but Wilson threatened to call a general election on the theme of the government or the Bank of England. Cromer backed down in a hurry. On 3 January 1997 the Guardian carrried a long, splendidly condescending letter from John Cole, erstwhile BBC political editor, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 87 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-06.htm
