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• Minister of Disinformation

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 529
  To the absolutely delight of the nation Lord Mandelson is to be gracing our television screens even more. The founder of the words "spin to win" (or was that Alistair Campbell?), may well be making weekly televised briefings which would be broadcast direct through the Downing Street website. Gordon Brown has ...
  5 hours ago

• Why so defensive on migration, Brown?

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  If anything, weve tightened up our borders too much since the late-90s immigration spike. The PM should get off the back foot What was Gordon Brown trying to achieve with his speech on immigration today? Although he devoted a lot of time to policy changes, they really dont amount to much more than tweaks to the ...
  7 hours ago

• Can Brown weather the Suns storm? | Michael White

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Gordon Brown deserves some sympathy – the fast-spinning news industry is as potentially destructive as the economy All this excitement about the Sun. Why do governments and the upmarket media, BBC and Guardian included, get so excited about the Sun when that dangerously more formidable tabloid (whoops, they prefer ...
  10 hours ago

• Brownie at PMQ’s – Gordon Brown economical with Truth shock

  
  Fitaloon at MicroShaft — Authority: 127
  The Press and Journal reports that the White House last night dismissed suggestions by Gordon Brown that President Barack Obama was close to announcing a decision on the deployment of more troops to Afghanistan.In the Commons, Mr Brown told MPs that he had spoken to Mr Obama and expected him “to announce in a ...
  10 hours ago

• David Miliband, the Westminster wobbler, is Labours answer to Michael Portillo

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 811
  The Times’ Danny Finkelstein popped up on the telly yesterday to talk about David Miliband’s decision to rule himself out of the job of EU foreign minister. The gist of the Finkelstein argument is that the reason Miliband has not taken a job that was his for the asking is that he lacks an essential requirement for ...
  10 hours ago

• Googling

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  I see that a recent visitor to my site came as a result of the google search for - gordon brown incompetent - This blog is the number 2 result; I am so proud.
  11 hours ago

• Brown unveils tougher immigration rules

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Prime minister announces plans to reduce the number of professions that can recruit from outside Europe Gordon Brown today outlined plans to tighten the UKs immigration rules by reducing the number of professions which can recruit from outside Europe and limit the numbers coming in to Britain on student visas. In ...
  12 hours ago

• Britain will clamp down on skilled migrants too: Brown

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  London, Nov 12 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, besieged by immigration issues six months ahead of elections, Thursday whittled down a list of jobs that are open to highly-skilled migrants, declaring: “Immigration will fall.”Hospital consultants, civil engineers, aircraft engineers and ship’s officers ...
  12 hours ago

• Glasgow North East byelection – live

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Minute-by-minute coverage throughout the day as Labour and SNP clash in key byelection 12.16pm: Heres a good picture of Kerr visiting a polling station at Scaraway nursery school in the north of the city. Nice car. 12.11pm: LabourLists Alex Smith is also following events on a blog throughout the day. He ...
  14 hours ago

• Gordon Brown to announce new migrant controls to help British workers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Prime minister to use first speech on immigration since taking office to announce measures to help British workers Gordon Brown will intervene in the critical issue of immigration, using a major speech today to promise that migrant workers will only be used to fill jobs temporarily in parts of the economy where there ...
  14 hours ago

• The writing was on the wall

  
  The Olive Press — Authority: 431
  THERE was never any question where we would aim for. It was my university’s hitch hike for charity and it began exactly 20 years ago, during the week the Berlin Wall started to fall. A precursor to my future career as a journalist, there was only one place in the world that I wanted to be. Just 20 years of age ...
  14 hours ago

• Roy Greenslade: Brown phoned Murdoch to complain at Sun campaign

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  Dinner parties and chums network reinforce Wapping links with Tories Gordon Brown called Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday to complain about the Suns campaign against the governments handling of the Afghanistan war, reports the Financial Times . The prime ministers phone call reflects the growing concern on both ...
  16 hours ago

• Gordon Brown is over it

  
  Queer Sighted — Authority: 434
  Filed under: News News - UK LGBT charity Stonewall has recruited new high-profile people to support their Education for All campaign, which tackles homophobic bullying in schools. The household names such as PM Gordon Brown and singer Beverley Knight have spoken out ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email this ...
  17 hours ago

• Op-ed: ‘How charming to pillory disabled Gordon Brown’

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 436
  Writing in the [UK Times], columnist Melanie Reid responds to recent criticism of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the misspellings in a letter of condolence he sent to the mother of a fallen soldier. Reid says personal attacks leveled against Brown amount to public bullying of a man whose impaired vision ...
  17 hours ago

• Peter Mandelson to get another role?

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  The Guardian speculate that "Lord Mandelson is being tipped as a possible "minister for information" under a shake-up of the way Downing Street holds its media briefings announced today. Officials planning the overhaul believe that one option would be for the business secretary to hold weekly news conferences to ...
  20 hours ago

• Poor Gordon Brown

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 478
  It seems the unfortunate man simply cannot get a break, especially not from Rupert Murdoch’s Sun tabloid rag that appears bent on a campaign of personal destruction. Furthermore, as the reliably conservative Spectator pointed out , “one may reasonably wonder about a person who chooses to record a ...
  21 hours ago

• AND WHATNOT: Gordon Brown Gets An Earful; Also, Secret Affairs, Food Fun, and My Next MTV Obsession

  
  B-Side Blog — Authority: 131
  Exclusive video of Slys origins. Perfectly Edible: Sugar Free Pie! (technically speaking) The Dartmouth: Police Blotter! AMC: The Mad Men Season 3 Ultimate Fan Quiz Movieline: Dollhouse Boards Up (sorry, IndianJones) IvyGate: Secret Mega-Steamy Affair Emails BCC’ed To All Of Cornell ...
  21 hours ago

• Judging the writer: in defence of Gordon Brown

  
  University Blog — Authority: 473
  I confess I am not necessarily a keen supporter of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. While I was generally impressed with him as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he seems to me to be less than sure-footed as Tony Blair’s successor – the job does not appear to be a natural fit. But this week I am on his side, and ...
  22 hours ago

• Forbes most powerful people list snubs European leaders

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  European leaders have been snubbed in a new ranking of the worlds most powerful people which instead pays homage to the heads of emerging economies and the superrich.
  23 hours ago

• WE CAN’T BANK ON MERVYN KING TO CONTROL THE BANKS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 121
  Bank of England Governor Meryvn King (pictured above) yesterday gave a gloomy forecast, warning that the UK economy had “only just started along the road to recovery”. Presenting the Bank’s quarterly inflation report, he highlighted the long-term damage to the public finances by the record Government borrowing ...
  23 hours ago

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