[PDF file]: 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] particularly those who knew Jack Ruby. Using the PDF version, I skimmed through it looking for interesting snippets. And there are many. Take ‘The voice of Kyle Brown’. The name rang a faint bell: somewhere in the Billy Sol Estes story Estes recalls that he had conversations with Johnson’s chief operator, Cliff Carter. He […]
[PDF file]: […] Party, was Secretary of Common Cause from 1954-5621 (21), presumably from its inception, apparently in 1952: a piece in The Times announced Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and John Brown, ex-General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation as joint chairs. (DouglasHamilton turns up later in the 1950s as part of the de Courcy group […]
