[…] the Mafia notoriously say, ‘things change’ but it looked, by May Day, that deadlines were being set. Blair has set a framework for terrorism and security that Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of […]
[…] have been fun doing it. He could just have published the US Space Command brochure. The Captive Party: How Labour was taken over by Capital Michael Barratt Brown Socialist Renewal, new series, no. 2, £5.00 Very useful and clearly written, this is a 70 page, perfect (glue) bound pamphlet, part commentary on and part […]
[…] former Conservative Central Office researcher who was then editorial page editor of the Independent newspaper was one of two British journalists present, the other being Yasmin Alibhai Brown, then an editor of the New Statesman and now a freelance writer whose work appears widely. The purpose of the 1988 gathering – as of all […]
[…] limited success no thanks to the rather naive approach to business of the Leader’s immediate circle. Geoff Mulgan was then (1992) a research assistant to Gordon Brown and LFIG was close to the John Smith/Gordon Brown Scots network, though Blair was very much in the frame even at that time as a rising […]
[…] career, to Roy (now Lord) Hattersley. Lord Cashpoint’s memory A Foreign Office colleague of McShane and Foulkes under Blair was Michael Levy whose memoirs attacking Blair, Gordon Brown and the state of the Labour Party were serialised in The Mail on Sunday just before the May municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten […]
[…] the Democrats and – by implication – how British politicians would compete for office in the future. Weston’s book, we were told, was being read by the Brown team during the parliamentary recess. Except Bush didn’t beat the Democrats: the Republicans stole both elections; and the fascination this book has apparently roused is just […]
[…] and who knows which other scum-bag regimes; hence the huge subsidies of the arms industry by the British state. In the Public Interest Gerald James Little and Brown, London, 1995(1) Some of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it […]
In 1997 Robert Henderson, a retired civil servant, wrote to the then leader of the Opposition Tony Blair to ask for his help. Eventually he wrote a dozen or so letters to Blair and Cherie Booth. Blair then tried to have him prosecuted but the legal authorities refused to act. Blair or someone close to […]
[…] co-chairing a PDU meeting at Pacific Harbour outside Suva. At this meeting were Brian Talboys, Sue Wood and Barry Leay, all of the National Party, and Neil Brown, Australian Liberal Party deputy leader and foreign affairs spokesman. The PDU meeting provided a kind of alibi for Mara, and both Talboys and Brown lent support […]
[…] the next issue. But nothing appeared in Private Eye. The Guardian We next contacted the Guardian. They spent a week working on the story and journalist Paul Brown drove to Glastonbury to listen to David Icke. After a three-week wait, an article, ‘Ex-nutter rails at New World Order mind benders’ (9 May), finally appeared; […]
