[PDF file]: […] just before the assassination. This account of the meeting is similar though not identical to the material in the memoir of LBJ’s putative mistress, the late Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning 6 and the version attributed to the late ‘Loy’ Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor, originally a book and now […]
[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]: […] to resign from No 10 and become special envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, Mandelson had mended some of his broken fences with successor Gordon Brown. He returned from Brussels to join Brown’s Labour Cabinet as the unelected Lord Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool. But he was already working hard for his […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of two world wars and the previous destruction of 400 years of slavery and colonialism, white folks were threatened by an explosion in the number of ‘ brown people’. Of course the book did not use such explicit language but anyone who read the list of countries could see that what was to be […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] fascinating Osborne/Bowen is assembled at 5 See . There is also a Wiki entry on the organisation. Page 35 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 mistress, the late Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning 6 and the version attributed to the late ‘Loy’ Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor, originally a book and now […]
