euronews24 (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Gordon Brown will take a gloom-laden message to the G8 summit in Italy this week, saying there are "warning signs around the world" that the fledgling recovery is in peril.The prime minister fears that the April meeting of the G20 in London did not ...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
LONDON, July 5 (UPI) -- John Sawers' suitability to head Britain's Secret Intelligence Service is being questioned in light of his wife's disclosures on Facebook, sources said. Sawers is Britain's ambassador to the United Nations. In November, he's scheduled to become chief of MI6, Britain's spying operations abroad. Last month, Sawers' wife, Shelley, posted dozens of pictures, with captions, to her...
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Brown attacks Burmese leaders Gordon Brown has attacked Burma's leaders after they refused to let UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Prime Minister, who has been a vocal campaigner for her release from jail, spoke out after Mr Ban's two-day visit to the country ended without progress. Mr Brown said: "The UN Secretary general was right to go to Burma....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Alistair Darling says public sector pay must reflect prevailing conditions as inflation hits lowest level in years Alistair Darling today refused to rule out a pay freeze for Britain's six million public sector workers after the head of the government's spending watchdog accused party leaders of failing to be honest with people. Steve Bundred, the chief executive of the Audit Commission, wrote in...
Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Aftershocks have rocked the Italian town of L'Aquila, where the G8 summit is due to open this week. The tremors, which have reached 4.1 on the Richter scale, have forced the Italians to consider moving the conference and newspapers are reporting that the security concerns for leaders, including Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, could cause the summit to move to Rome In the meantime briefing papers that...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Spending tsar wants action on wages • Cuts must cover health and education A pay freeze should be imposed on Britain's six million public sector workers, the head of the government's spending watchdog says today. He also accuses party leaders of failing to be honest with the public about the need for cuts, even in health and education. In a blistering attack, Steve Bundred, chief executive...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gordon Brown attacked the “obstinacy” of the Burmese regime after they refused to allow UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to meet with jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Prime Minister, who has been a vocal campaigner for her release, spoke out after Mr Ban’s two-day visit to the country ended without progress and warned [...]
euronews24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised the prospect Saturday of further sanctions against Myanmar following UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's fruitless visit to the military regime. We await the secretary-general's report, Brown said in a sta ...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined thousands of revelers in London's annual gay pride march.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON -- The wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined thousands of revelers in London's annual gay pride march.
Mark Easton's UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth." I wonder how Gordon Brown reacted when he read these opening words in the Sustainable Development Commission's report Prosperity Without Growth published in March this year. (The Commission is a public body set up to advise the prime minister on sustainable development.) And I wonder how he might respond...
Home of the Green Arrow (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Tell me again WHY WE SHOULDN’T BAN MUSLIM immigration to this country? Saying “GOOD MORNING” to a Muslim female neighbor can get you killed. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/ Surge in School Sex Attacks The Times has an interesting article and series of statistics which document the huge rise in rapes and other sex attacks in British schools. http://thelambethwalk.blogspot.com/...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Today, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, said he was determined to keep the issue of maternal mortality high on the agenda of the G8 summit in Italy next week. Speaking after meeting with midwives and doctors from the Global Maternal Mortality Campaign, the Prime Minister said: "It's outrageous that one woman dies every minute in childbirth, despite an agreement to tackle this in 2000.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The prime minister’s Big Idea for Britain is a day late and a dollar short IN OCTOBER 2007 Gordon Brown decided against a snap election, ostensibly in order to lay his vision for Britain before the electorate in a more leisurely manner. Several bank bail-outs and one economic crisis later, the vision has landed. With its wan echo of New Labour reforming themes, the grab-bag of policies the prime...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Nine months ago, Gordon Brown won plaudits for intervening boldly to prevent the financial crisis spiralling out of control with a plan to recapitalise the banks. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman declared in the New York Times, under the headline “Gordon does good”, that Mr Brown had “saved the world financial system”. Today, the Prime Minister stands accused of wrecking...
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