[PDF file]: […] Ed Balls’ speech to conference on 22 September. The penny has dropped that some sort of apology needs to be made for the mess he and Gordon Brown created when they were last in office. This would play well with the electorate: a politician’s admission of error is so rare that it would be […]
[PDF file]: […] see Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. 18 7 happens when you […]
[PDF file]: […] of MI6 John Scarlett and ex-Blair chief of staff Jonathan Powell. Portland figures in addition to Campbell and Allan were Powell’s brother Chris; Martin Sheehan, a Gordon Brown PR man and Steve Morris, a one-time Blair adviser. The third Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater, who was special envoy to Blair after long service to […]
[PDF file]: […] Ascherson, ‘On Tom Nairn’, London Review of Books, vol. 45, no. 4, 16 February 2023, p. 12. See also Anthony Barnett, ‘Deciding Britain’s Future: Tom Nairn, Gordon Brown, Marxism and Nationalism’, Open Democracy, 30 January, 2022, or . The ‘NairnAnderson thesis’ can be found in, for example, Perry Anderson, ‘Origins of the Present Crisis’ […]
[…] 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.18 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.14 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[PDF file]: […] most popular man at BSkyB’, 11 November 2011, . 50 See David Rothkopf, Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, (New York: Little, Brown, 2008). 51 ‘Masters of the World’, Daily Mirror, 10 October 1997. (Barber), and credited with ‘tremendous dynamism while staying resolutely behind the scenes’ (Wullschlager).5 2 But […]
[PDF file]: […] question. All they would have to do is shut up Tom Watson MP! Indeed, Murdoch has actually let it be known that he wanted to back Gordon Brown at the general election, but was persuaded by young James and Rebekah Brooks that Cameron was the coming man. This, one suspects, is a decision that […]
[PDF file]: […] we faced. It would hark back to the wilderness years, when Labour appeared unelectable.’ p. 65 Don’t you love the political perspective? Facing economic armageddon, Darling and Brown are worried that the electorate might be reminded of Old Labour. He says nationalising Lloyds/HBOS was ‘the last thing I wanted…. bringing with it all the […]
[…] Simon Matthews, ‘The once and future king?’ in Lobster 56. 18 And the fact that he did so is one of the reasons the NuLab faction – Brown, Blair et al – detested him: he knew more than they did, knew they were talking shit and told them so. For a political leader, like […]
