Gordon Brown: in the country of the blind…

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[PDF file]: […] This would have reduced the Treasury’s role significantly and would have Brown left with little power. It sounds similar to the arrangements put in place by Harold Wilson and George Brown in 1964 with the Department of Economic Affairs….so much for New Labour. 45 Winter 2010 position.1 9 The spectacle of a political party […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] the abandonment of the government’s economic strategy and ‘the end of Keynesianism’. For a start, the strategy had in fact been settled in late 1975, while Harold Wilson was still Prime Minister. Its aim was to deliver both steady growth and falls in the rate of inflation, along Douglas Wass, Decline to Fall: The […]

The economic crisis

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[PDF file]: […] Sachs personnel involved with the Obama administration is at < http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/46267>. 18 Despite the recent flurry of low-level activity by the British FSA. See, for example, Harry Wilson, ‘FSA charges seven over “£2.5m insider-trading ring” , Daily Telegraph, 31 March 2010. 121 Summer 2010 comment is from the generally excellent Washington’s blog: ‘The Senate […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

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[PDF file]: […] you know but who you See: . Our editor also makes reference to this in his recent book review of Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files by Kate Wilson or . 16 See the second item of my ‘South of the Border’ in that issue . 17 18 See . 19 See . 5 know.20 […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] national happiness peaked’, The Independent, 17 March 2004 at or . 15 The most comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

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[PDF file]: […] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 34 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]

Angles Morts

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[PDF file]: […] and following the necessary hospital bureaucracy, her body was transported to north Manchester’s tahara house.4 Misaskim then asked Rabbi Yossi Jacobs and the chairman of John F. Wilson, Ferranti. a History: Volume 3: Management, mergers and fraud 1987-1993 (Manchester University Press, 2013). 3 4 A building where Jewish bodies are ritually cleansed. 2 Birmingham’s […]

Spandau blood

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[PDF file]: […] Prisoner Number Seven in Spandau when the medical care of the prisoners had never been the responsibility of the US Army. I sent their questions to Emily Wilson, editor of New Scientist, in the hope that ‘the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine’ might undertake the gathering of some answers. Like Prime Minister […]

The Christian Right Revisited

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[PDF file]: […] effect. Not since George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, ran for the Presidency in 1968 had ‘a presidential candidate spoken in this way. Not since Woodrow Wilson had such an outspoken racist occupied the White House’. (p. 87) And on top of that he appealed to the notion of masculinity that had gripped […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

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[PDF file]: […] the one British politician who tried to generate public interest in 9/11 is unable to join them. Michael Meacher, a minister in Labour governments led by Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair, died in 2015. He was an early critic of Blair’s decision to invade Iraq 8 and his 2003 Guardian article on […]

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