[PDF file]: […] proved you knew why those taboos were important and could be trusted to place an ironic fig leaf over the offending areas.’ On non-graduate comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown: ‘Like Bernard Manning, he was simply not acceptable in polite society.’ On audiences cheering Brown’s remarks on asylum seekers: ‘And he was quite clear he meant […]
[…] 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.3 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[…] the Second World War, the tobacco industry employed PR for a more insidious purpose. Unable to contradict the emerging facts about the harmfulness of smoking, tobacco manufacturers Brown & Williamson decided internally that ‘Doubt is our product’. 11 Brown and Williamson’s ‘doubt’ memo. They realised that the activities of anti-smoking campaigners were ‘accelerating and […]
[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 […]
[…] the Second World War, the tobacco industry employed PR for a more insidious purpose. Unable to contradict the emerging facts about the harmfulness of smoking, tobacco manufacturers Brown & Williamson decided internally that ‘Doubt is our product’. 11 Brown and Williamson’s ‘doubt’ memo. They realised that the activities of anti-smoking campaigners were ‘accelerating and […]
[PDF file]: […] to accept. Into Holloway prison Putting a transgender spy into a Holloway prison cell alongside Elizabeth Forsyth appears to have involved a huge expenditure, including an MI6 brown envelope full of cash to pay for Olivia’s private gynaecological surgery at the Nuffield Hospital in Chester; repayment of embezzled cash to the Manchester timber merchant; […]
[…] the Second World War, the tobacco industry employed PR for a more insidious purpose. Unable to contradict the emerging facts about the harmfulness of smoking, tobacco manufacturers Brown & Williamson decided internally that ‘Doubt is our product’. 11 Brown and Williamson’s ‘doubt’ memo. They realised that the activities of anti-smoking campaigners were ‘accelerating and […]
[PDF file]: […] to accept. Into Holloway prison Putting a transgender spy into a Holloway prison cell alongside Elizabeth Forsyth appears to have involved a huge expenditure, including an MI6 brown envelope full of cash to pay for Olivia’s private gynaecological surgery at the Nuffield Hospital in Chester; repayment of embezzled cash to the Manchester timber merchant; […]
[…] the Second World War, the tobacco industry employed PR for a more insidious purpose. Unable to contradict the emerging facts about the harmfulness of smoking, tobacco manufacturers Brown & Williamson decided internally that ‘Doubt is our product’. 11 Brown and Williamson’s ‘doubt’ memo. They realised that the activities of anti-smoking campaigners were ‘accelerating and […]
[…] the Second World War, the tobacco industry employed PR for a more insidious purpose. Unable to contradict the emerging facts about the harmfulness of smoking, tobacco manufacturers Brown & Williamson decided internally that ‘Doubt is our product’. 11 Brown and Williamson’s ‘doubt’ memo. They realised that the activities of anti-smoking campaigners were ‘accelerating and […]
