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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] standing down as an MP evoked a predictable chorus of acclamation from Labour Party supporters and derision from its opponents. None of the comments I read portrayed Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American […]
Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant
[PDF file]: […] Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian Socialist, A H Halsey, the eminent sociologist, had […]
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[…] Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian Socialist, A H Halsey, the eminent sociologist, had […]
The two Goulds
[…] chair of the committee dealing with the economy, industrial strategy and public ownership. This group included Gould’s researcher Nigel Stanley, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Gordon Brown and newly elected MP, Ken Livingstone. John Eatwell, Neil Kinnock’s advisor on economics, attended ‘as an observer and as a link between the committee and Neil’s […]
The Two Goulds
[PDF file]: […] chair of the committee dealing with the economy, industrial strategy and public ownership. This group included Gould’s researcher Nigel Stanley, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Gordon Brown and newly elected MP, Ken Livingstone. John Eatwell, Neil Kinnock’s advisor on economics, attended ‘as an observer and as a link between the committee and Neil’s […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] and both were made peers in Gordon Brown’s dissolution list. Sue Nye, who has served most Labour leaders since Jim Callaghan, was the woman blamed by Gordon Brown for introducing him to the ‘bigoted’ Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy. She has reportedly worked for free for Brown for years, money presumably not being a pressing […]
Vassal State: How America Runs Britain by Angus Hanton
[PDF file]: […] Britain Angus Hanton London: Swift Press, 2024, £25.00 h/b, £12.99 p/b John Booth A 10-minute drive from the North Queensferry home of former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the second-largest Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the United Kingdom. Long in the planning during New Labour’s years in government, its 1.5 million square-foot premises opened […]
View from the bridge
[…] it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there was a natural evolution away from making things to ‘the knowledge economy’. Well, here we are. According to […]
View from the bridge
[…] it to prosper. The Tories – Howe, Lawson and Thatcher – were entirely City of London-focused, knowing and caring nothing about manufacturing Britain. Their successors and acolytes, Brown and Blair, thought manufacturing didn’t matter, that there was a natural evolution away from making things to ‘the knowledge economy’. Well, here we are. According to […]