[…] free market moves since 1979 have all been a mistake. Even if Mr Starmer thought it, this would entail criticising Mrs Thatcher’s acolytes, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and he won’t do that. To judge by Chancellor Reeves’ Mansion House speech in November, she isn’t going to entertain any deviant ideas.3 It was all […]
[PDF file]: […] he’s down. . . … especially if that man is Boris Johnson. I have previously written of the similarities betwixt himself and the unlamented ‘accident prone’ George Brown, late of the 1960s Labour front bench. I have recently been taking advantage of the Netflix streaming service to work my way through the entire Monty […]
[PDF file]: […] everyone who mattered, politicians included. Tooze notes that it was the social democrats in the US and the UK, the ‘new’ Democrats (Clinton) and New Labour ( Brown and Blair), who took all this free market nonsense seriously and gave the money men their heads. ‘It was, therefore, no coincidence that it was now […]
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[PDF file]: […] and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.’ Ambition Lord save us from people who just want to be the big I-am. We had Gordon Brown, who wanted to be the Big Yin. Gordon joined Labour and apparently was a socialist. Then he sniffed the wind and realised that he had to […]
[PDF file]: […] in Menzies and Churchill at War (London: Paragon House, 1987). Channon’s comments seem to bolster this assessment. 20 21 Her nickname was due to her thick, dark brown hair. 22 Channon had written The Ludwigs of Bavaria (1933), an account of the Wittlesbachs. 14 Given its date, was the message ‘Mrs Woolly well now […]
[PDF file]: […] part on the West Bank in three chapters. The first, ‘Can the Current Palestinian Leadership and Its Institutions End the Occupation?’ is led off by Nathan J Brown with responses by Diana Buttu and Glenn E Robinson. Subsequent chapters on Gaza follow the same formula, one chapter asking if Hamas can be part of […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Soviet bloc-NATO spy contest in the post-war years. For example: George Blake, Heinz Felfe, the putative post-war survival of ‘Gestapo’ Muller, an apparent clandestine Red- Brown post-war network called Hacke, and James Angleton’s curious fixation on the Soviet defector Anatoly Golitsyn. Apart from the Angleton-Golitsyn material, much of the rest of this […]
[PDF file]: […] and short-term definition of those interests. A great deal of UK capital was bound up in Spanish manufacturing, notably in shipbuilding where Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth, and John Brown held 40% of the capital and provided 5% of the workforce for the company Sociedad Espanola de Construccion Naval. There were many similar examples in mining, […]
