[…] despite the Labour Party’s internecine squabbling, is one of the awkward facts omitted from Phillip Gould’s The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party, Little Brown and Co., London, 1998. In the postscript to the BAP pamphlet Weyer seeks to refute the Tom Easton thesis on BAP in Lobster 33 which, he […]
[…] is, under RIPA s59(3), similarly required to assist the Tribunal in their investigations, though in his first report, published in October 2001, the Commissioner, Lord Justice Simon Brown, does not refer to providing assistance to the IPT. (9) A further Commissioner, known as the Investigatory Powers Commissioner for Northern Ireland, is also established under […]
[…] and their critical judgement by the red scare of the early Cold War. I SPY: The Secret Life of a British Agent Geoffrey Elliott St Ermin’s Press/Little, Brown, London, 1998, £18.99 The agent in question was Elliott’s father, Kavan, about whom Elliott knew very little until he began to research his life. The result […]
[…] in a process of manipulation and patronage that has slipped from being about covert funding to overt flirtation and can be traced right through to Blair and Brown today. It is true that New Labour was strongly influenced by the Clinton team’s concept of ‘triangulation’, or what’s now being called ‘convergence’. But what is […]
[…] some nous and a good sceptical eye has done some serious work on it. In Fortean Studies vol 7, (eds. Ian Simmonds and Melanie Quin; London: John Brown Publishing, 2001) that most persistent of pamphleteers, Kevin McClure, has gone through the literature on the subject in great detail and concludes that the whole thing […]
[…] So the invasion of Iraq was part of a drive to democratise the the Arab world and advance the cause of women in it! Notes 1. Colin Brown, Kim Sengupta and Andrew Grice, ‘No 10 admits Hutton cover-up’, The Independent 17 July 2004. 2. A similar process is happening in education policy where, inch […]
[PDF file]: […] didn’t get any attention and didn’t sell but is still available in ebook form. I was prompted to make this available because of the rehabilitation of Gordon Brown recently. Lest we forget, he is one of the chief architects of the economic mess we are in. This chapter shows how. Robin Ramsay Chapter 8 […]
[PDF file]: […] MP’s: a primary allegiance to personal liberty and a belief in free market economics.4 None of this mattered very much in 2006 or in 2007 when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell […]
[PDF file]: […] to get Murdoch to change sides. As Davies points out, since 1979, ‘no British government has been elected without the support of Rupert Murdoch….Thatcher, Major, Blair and Brown have consistently cleared their diaries and welcomed him to the inner sanctum of their governments (and then disclosed as little as possible of what passed between […]
[PDF file]: […] what the bankers call a reverse takeover. The scale is mindblowing. RBS’s £2 trillion of liabilities dwarfs not only the government reserves but the entire UK economy. Brown hasn’t so much nationalised the banks, he has bank-ised the nation.’ 4 Nelson used the term ‘bankocracy’, which I thought was recent; Anne Pettifor has used […]
