[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; […]
[PDF file]: […] What ‘contrived’ means for Morley, I don’t know. As for ‘conjectural’, there is good conjecture and bad. The witness to whom Morley refers is the late Madeleine Brown, one of LBJ’s mistresses. In fact she is peripheral to the story. She was useful in the beginning, when Glen Sample and Mark Collom kicked off […]
[PDF file]: […] same boat?) Secondly, on a general point about the ennobled contingent of likely Corbyn haters, they will be heavily reinforced by the peers appointed by Blair and Brown – who know that Corbyn doesn’t like the peerage. He’s only appointed a handful himself (including Shami Chakrabarti – and look where that leads us in […]
[…] 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]: […] New Labour government was through Gordon Brown’s younger brother Andrew, who joined EDF Energy, as head of media relations. (He is now director of corporate communications.) Andrew Brown previously worked for Weber Shandwick, where Philip Dewhurst – now Director of Corporate Affairs at British Nuclear Fuels – was the UK Chief Executive. (Private Eye […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 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]: […] 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 […]
