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Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]

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[…] that putting up domestic interest rates will ‘reduce inflation’ when the primary causes of it are outside the British economy. There was former PM and Chancellor Gordon Brown in The Observer bemoaning the UK’s failing welfare state and the rise in poverty, still unaware of his major role in creating the current mess – […]

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[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.49 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]

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[…] the forces of globalisation and neo-conservatism meant they would never win a general election.2 0 Changes begun under Neil Kinnock were continued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown when they became more or less joint party leaders in 1994 and then took office in 1997. Several wars, the banking crisis (and the longest recession […]

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[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.49 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]

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Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the London Borough of Havering.4 Through his extensive Labour Party connections, his tireless advocacy for the north east and his public relations work, Smith met George Brown MP. In October 1964 Brown, deputy leader of the Labour Party and newly appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs, offered Smith an important position at the […]

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Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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