[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]
[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]
[PDF file]: […] Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn’t support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the shmuck got right – there was no […]
[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]
[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]
[…] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.66 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] professor and lord and sociologist’ in Davos; and even a glass of champagne with the veteran Trotskyist journalist John Palmer, who spends his time abusing Blair and Brown and praising Ken Livingstone. (pp. 163, 223, 233) Of particular interest are his mentions of a certain Jeremy Corbyn, ‘for whom I have a lot of […]
[PDF file]: […] some of his (unexceptional) thoughts on the event in the Guardian.39 The only really interesting bit in Darling’s memoir showed the reader how he and prime minister Brown had perceived things at the time: ‘When I went across to see Gordon in the flat that evening, I told him that nationalization was looking increasingly […]
[PDF file]: […] House Select Committee on Assassinations, May 16, 1978, 168-69, available at . Brod was actually recruited by Angleton in Italy in 1944; CIA memo by Jerrold B. Brown for Inspector General, July 1, 1975, re ‘Possible Questionable Activity’. For more on Brod and Angleton, see Gus Russo, The Outfit (New York: Bloomsbury, 2001), p. […]
