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... reasons it wasn't serialised by Uncle Rupert. Keith Ewing is professor of public law at King's College, London, and an angry chronicler of the erosion of civil liberties under New Labour. 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 and the national security state to the 'war on terror' and control orders and rendition, Ewing's solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but also to a broader band of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-140.pdf
... two sections which added anything to my knowledge. The first concerns concerned the birth, short life and death of the notion of the 'stakeholder economy' in NuLab thinking. Originally promoted by Will Hutton, it was briefly adopted by Blair not that he had thought its implications through; but it sounded good and was kiboshed immediately by Brown. (Campbell presents Blair as to the left of Brown throughout this book.) The second is a passing reference to the fund-raising activities of Lord Levy. Several accounts have stated that Levy raised around £7 million pounds for Blair's private office (liberating him from the financial clutches of the party and unions). On p. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-105.pdf
... capital leaving the UK, this old wealth going out would counterbalance the new coming in from the North Sea. Thus there would be no trade surplus and 50 Tony Benn, Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80 (London: Hutchinson, 1990) pp. 280/1. Edward Pearce's biography of Healey, Denis Healey (London: Little Brown, 2002) p. 508, attributes the decision to Healey supported by Treasury ministers Lever and Barnett; with the kicker that the fund notion was rejected in part simply because it was supported by Tony Benn who had become a pariah within the cabinet. Healey doesn't mention the event in his memoir. 83 Winter 2010 no rising pound ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... 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
... uk/31866.stm> 7 Donnelly with his Sovereign Strategy hat on can be seen at <www.youtube.com/watch?v =V7mhSe5bF9A> 7 Winter 2010 A n intimate scene, too, when it comes to sorting out student finance. Mandelson, in his third Cabinet incarnation, passed the job of finding ways to fund higher education to Lord Browne, the former head of BP, disgraced when found to be dishonestly defaming his former lover in front of a senior High Court judge. Mandelson's very old Fabian friend Nick Butler spent his career alongside Browne at BP, taking time out to help found the BAP in the mid-80s. Mandelson was an early recruit to that network and Browne ...
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... of YouGov.13 In June 2001 she became Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills and in September 2004 Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Department for Constitutional Affairs. This was followed by becoming a Privy Councillor in 2006 and Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State at the new Ministry of Justice in May 2007. In June 2007 Gordon Brown appointed her to the Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. In October 2008 she replaced Peter Mandelson as the 13 Coincidentally Kellner published something titled Democracy: 1000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2009). This appears to cover some of the same ground as Strafford though ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-193.pdf
... 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
... about regulation under successive chancellors since the Big Bang in 1986 was that the City asked for lighter and lighter supervision and boy, did it get it. It was part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (" What you in the City have done for financial services," enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, "we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole." He got that right.)' 2 City lobbying H ow this has been achieved, and how the ongoing relationship between the City and government works, is 1 For non British readers, Bremner is one of our leading comedians and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-113.pdf
... Contents Lobster 59 The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Have a guess T his was sent by Dan Atkinson, who wondered what was 'out of the question'? From recently-declassified US discussions about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. General Brown: I have one minor point that sort of parallels what we have been talking about. This Turkish opium issue. Secretary Kissinger: Let's shut up a week on the poppy issue. We don't need to get that involved now. Mr. Sisco: I have one small point. [1 line not declassified] Secretary Kissinger: That's absolutely out of the question. Mr. Sisco: I would think so, too. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-094.pdf
... columnist Julian Glover wrote twice in two days in support of the Yeovil MP. Before his departure Glover wrote: 'The story of David Laws has an uncomfortable echo: the downfall of BP's former chief executive John Browne. After he went, Glover described Laws as 'this man of exceptional nobility'. Readers who want to assess Glover's comparison with Lord Browne may care to read the judgment in that case of Mr Justice Eady, a man not known for upholding the press's right 86 Summer 2010 to free expression in privacy matters.1 Those who want to weigh the 'exceptional nobility' of the former Chief Secretary, 'Mr Integrity', according to Ashdown, might start with this <www.yeovil-libdems.org.uk/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-086.pdf
