[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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. […]
[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 […]
[…] a part of it, but and or 29 Still widely available on-line. See the review at or . Author interview at or . 30 11 Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.31 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[PDF file]: […] reactions to his first Cabinet, to the government of all the talents concept, to his healthcare policy . . . and to his education policy.’ 4 Later, Brown would cast his long-term pollster Deborah Mattinson out of his magic circle. She seemed too insistent on telling him things he didn’t want to know, not […]
[PDF file]: […] and troops? While these were undoubtedly factors, they affected how the unwinnable war unfolded rather than having any direct effect on the inevitable outcome. The Blair and Brown governments deserve censure for getting involved at all, rather than for somehow losing the war. It is worth briefly noticing here the dramatic falling out between […]
[PDF file]: […] part of the Faustian pact that got New Labour into power in the first place. (“What you in the City have done for financial services,” enthused Gordon Brown in 2002, “we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole.” He got that right.)’ 2 City lobbying H ow this has […]
