[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] more apt title for a book charting the history of this glittering nexus and its detractors. The Bilderbergers are people who certainly know how to network. Gordon Brown attended in 1991. His boss at the time was John Smith, leader of the Labour Party and a member of the Bilderberg steering committee. Another attendee […]
[PDF file]: […] I breathe’. What is needed to deal with the likes of Ashley are ‘new employment and trade union rights’. But he doesn’t explain why the Blair and Brown Labour governments did not introduce such legislation between 1997 and 2010. The book’s best chapter is on the 1984-85 miners’ strike, which he describes as ‘the […]
