[…] we are all here is due to one man’s action; Cameron’s obsessive arse kissing over the years of Rupert Murdoch. Tony Blair was pretty good, as was Brown. But Cameron was the Daddy….. Cameron wanted Rupert onside as he believed, quite wrongly in my view, that The Sun’s endorsement would help him to victory […]
[…] Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* More Broon At the end of my comment on Gordon Brown (subhead Broon below) I wrote ‘I might take Brown seriously if he offered us just a smidgeon of mea culpa’. Well, we sort of got that […]
[PDF file]: […] would seem not because, according to a report from The Independent, he said: ‘I’m glad it’s over. I’m glad I’m arrested.’19 Is Boris Johnson the new George Brown? The position of Foreign Secretary has occasionally been used by Prime Ministers to put trouble-makers in a position of power that keeps them away from home […]
[…] Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US […]
[…] Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US […]
[PDF file]: […] Aquino ran when her husband – Marcos’ political rival – was murdered at Manila airport on his return to challenge the president.1 4 SMG sent Mark Malloch Brown, a journalist with a South African background who had worked for The Economist.1 5 Malloch Brown developed what SMG called a ‘backboard shot’: if one can’t […]
[…] 14 Labour’s problem Looking through old issues, I noticed that in my column in number 64 I had reproduced Simon Lee’s summary of his 2012 paper ‘Gordon Brown and the British Way of Risk-Based Modernization’.15 In that was this. This paper argues Gordon Brown’s analysis is fundamentally flawed. We are not now living through […]
[PDF file]: […] became his Shadow Chancellor in 2015, and he has a better grasp of Labour history. He had grown up during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and identified with their critics who had seen the party’s loss of members, confidence and popular support from the New Labour high point of 1997. Jones […]
[…] is Labour’s problem Looking through old issues, I noticed that in my column in number 64 I had reproduced Simon Lee’s summary of his 2012 paper ‘Gordon Brown and the British Way of Risk-Based Modernization’.15 In that was this. This paper argues Gordon Brown’s analysis is fundamentally flawed. We are not now living through […]
[…] of right-wing propaganda on behalf of the colonial powers in Africa then beginning to experience serious local resistance. There is this paragraph, for example. The CIA’s Irving Brown as ‘communism’s angel’ is amusing. But Mr du Berrier’s original report with the Rockefeller quotation in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent […]
