[PDF file]: […] to consider possible support for a new party. By January 1981 a joint rally with the SDA and the Association of Democratic Groups, chaired by Lord George Brown of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies (IEDSS) was held. At the Anglo-German Konigswinter conference, Williams, William Rodgers and David Steel met and agreed […]
[PDF file]: […] close collaboration between the ‘former’ rulers under the Intergovernmental Authority for Development. 27 Africa Command, ‘TRANSCRIPT: General Ham Discusses U.S. AFRICOM objectives and Africa security issues at Brown University’, no date, at . 28 NATO, ‘Security Cooperation with the Mediterranean region and the broader Middle East’, Briefing paper, Brussels: NATO, p. 2-3. 29 Linda […]
[PDF file]: […] a small majority, few predicted the results that trickled in on 18 June 1970 – Heath winning with an overall majority of 30. Labour casualties included George Brown (deputy leader), Sir Dingle Foot (Solicitor General), Anthony Greenwood (Minister of Housing) and a significant number of less prominent personalities – Woodrow Wyatt, Stan Newens, Robert […]
[…] 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 […]
[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.14 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]
[PDF file]: […] and interests are not beneficial and are opposed to the armed forces. The unit is well placed to do this because its members are civilians.”’ When Gordon Brown dips into the bullshit basket he calls for some global action which he knows will never take place but which he thinks sounds impressive. His latest […]
[PDF file]: […] 10 See for example 11 Not that this makes a change from NuLab. See James Chapman, ‘Meet Labour’s City cronies: The roll call of bankers rewarded by Brown and Blair’, The Daily Mail 12 February 2009. These are detailed in James Lyons, ‘NHS reform leaves Tory backers with links to private healthcare firms set […]
[PDF file]: […] Halifax, Foreign Secretary; Reginald Dorman-Smith, Minister of Agriculture; David Margesson, Secretary of State for War; Lord Simon, Lord Chancellor; Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour; William Morrison, Postmaster-General; and Lord Caldecote, Lord Chancellor.3 Among those not explicitly branded as guilty, but still retained, was Lord Reith, known for […]
[PDF file]: […] the world does not include political approval or disapproval. NuLab didn’t understand this. Their initial posture towards the City was fear mixed with buttkissing. As chancellor, Gordon Brown may have famously not worn the expected dinner suit for his address at the annual meeting of the City bigwigs, but as his central policy that […]
