[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
