[PDF file]: […] Will Hutton, it was briefly adopted by Blair – not that he had thought its implications through; but it sounded good – and was kiboshed immediately by Brown. (Campbell presents Blair as to the left of Brown throughout this book.) The second is a passing reference to the fund-raising activities of Lord Levy. Several […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
