[PDF file]: […] business – in which ‘commissions’ are commonplace – but it has been for politicians, especially members of the Labour Party whose official ethos before messrs. Blair and Brown was something vaguely along the ‘merchants of death’ line. The Labour government of Harold Wilson solved that problem in 1966 by creating an insulation layer, the […]
[…] in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New York, 2009) 1 ‘controversial topics on which verifiable evidence was scarce’.3 A former telex operator related how he had been grilled by an MI6 officer […]
[…] 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 the region, a good subject for an experienced and knowledgeable journalist with an 11 Milne pp. 208-9. 12 See Genrikh Borovik, The Philby Files (London: Little, Brown, 1994) pp. 368-9. 13 Milne pp. 230-1, 235; Borovik (see note 12), p. 284 5 extensive network of well-placed contacts.14 Overall, his chief value to the […]
[PDF file]: […] the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI), University of Oxford; and Mark Blyth, Professor of International Economics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Rhode Island, have all praised it.5 There is a summary of the book’s thesis on the LSE website6 and a pseudonymous review from a Scottish […]
[PDF file]: Dr Sargant and Mr Sleep The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal Jon Stock London: The Bridge Street Press/Little Brown, 2025 416 pp., bibliography, notes, index, £25 h/b. Anthony Frewin In the late 1950s and 1960s Dr William Sargant was the media’s go-to expert on everything – from psychiatry and mental illness to […]
[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 […]
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]
[…] that just after the election of the original NuLab, in 1997, I commented that Labour was led by three ‘not very bright Thatcherites’.43 One of them, Gordon Brown, is still talking about poverty here without betraying the slightest awareness that he had any role in this country’s economic decline.44 Hey Gordon, you were in […]
[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 […]
