View from the bridge

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[…] 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 this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] time.’ See . 6 For Kinnock and the Trotskyist IWC see The Times Guide to the Election 1970. South and Shoreditch after its sitting Labour MP Ron Brown defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).7 With the SDP/Liberal Alliance polling 50% at this point (and leading the polls continuously from October 1981 to April […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] *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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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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