[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
