[…] 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 27 28 or 29 30 See, for example, or . 31 9 from […]
[PDF file]: […] likely, recent MRI scans suggest), hormones – but they are a very limited version of our species. Did he no ken? Let me recommend Simon Lee’s ‘Gordon Brown and the British Way of RiskBased Modernization’.1 This is the author’s summary. ‘In Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, Gordon Brown has sought […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the 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. ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. 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 […]
[…] *new* 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’.7 In that was this. This paper argues Gordon Brown’s analysis is fundamentally flawed. We are not now living through […]
