Gordon is a Moron: The Definitive and Objective Analysis of Gordon Brown's Decade as Chancellor of the Exchequer
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Gordon Brown rejected advice from Lord Mandelson to seek one of the big economic posts in the European Commission for Britain once it was clear that Tony Blair could not succeed in becoming Europe’s first president, The Times has learnt. Instead he settled for the post of EU High Representative for Baroness Ashton of Upholland.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned fellow world leaders on Sunday that they "cannot afford to fail" to strike a substantial deal on climate change in Copenhagen next month. Brown said the upcoming summit had to mark a "decisive global shift" towards tackling the issue, amid fears about the outcome of the crunch talks. Brown made the comments in a letter to Danish Prime...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party has narrowed its electoral gap to the opposition Conservatives, or Tories, to just 6 points, according to a poll for the Observer newspaper released Sunday. In the Ipsos Mori poll, the Labou...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Barack Obama is expected to announce his long-delayed plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan next week with a promise of between 3,000 and 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies — including Britain, so as to stop this looking like America’s war. An announcement by the US president is anticipated before the meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels on December 3. American officials suggest...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain's flood-hit northwest braced Saturday for more devastation after river levels rose again and forecasters warned of more rain following unprecedented torrential deluges. Scenes of devastation greeted Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a visit to the badly affected town of Cockermouth, with houses filled with muddy water, silt and sludge carpeting the roads and personal belongings floating away....
Andy Peacock (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Labour peer Baroness Ashton has been selected as the EU’s high representative of foreign affairs and security, diplomats say. Baroness Ashton, currently EU Trade Commissioner, was chosen for the new post by the leaders of the EU’s 27 member states at a meeting in Brussels. Gordon Brown backed her for the role after accepting Tony Blair could not become European Council president. Before...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
By PETER SPIEGEL and YOCHI J. DREAZEN WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have turned the focus of Afghan war planning toward an exit strategy, publicly declaring that the U.S. and its allies can't send additional troops without a plan for getting them out. The shift has unnerved some U.S. and foreign officials, who say that planning a pullout now -- with or...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall sources. To the dismay of key ministers, who wanted Brown to push for Britain to take an economic portfolio in the European commission once Blair's hopes were dashed, Brown insisted...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Pay no attention to the Eurosceptics. Cathy Ashton's posting as EU 'foreign secretary' is a major post-Lisbon development The chorus of ill-informed and patronising calls of "Who?" that have greeted the appointments of the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy , as the new long-term president (really chairman) of the European Council, and Baroness Cathy Ashton, as the new EU foreign...
Foreign Exchange Outlook (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
GBPEUR/GBPUSD The Pound declined for a third straight day against the U.S Dollar yesterday, while the UK currency also fell to a low of 1.1170 versus the Euro, amid speculation that UK banks will disclose more credit losses. The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that UK lenders are in a worst state than those abroad, citing credit-checking company Experian Plc. The Chief Executive Officer Don Robert...
The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh out loud and do a little dance of joy at this : Gordon Brown has accepted that prime minister Tony Blair cannot become the first President of the European Council, Downing Street has said. Good to see that once again the "support" of Gordon Brown has once again acted as a curse rather than a blessing.
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown along and three of his cabinet colleagues has launched a campaign to gather Labour support for Britain's role in Afghanistan.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
British peer says she will show she is the best person for the job of European foreign minister over the next few months and years Europe's eight-year quest to establish a simpler and more democratic regime came to a dramatic climax last night when the Belgian prime minister, Herman Van Rompuy, and British peer Cathy Ashton were appointed as the two top officials embodying the new system. In a surprise...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said it is too soon to set a timeline for shifting security duties from NATO-led troops to Afghan forces, as proposed by Britain. "I think I would rather have those on the ground in Afghanistan make the judgment call about when a province or a district was ready to be turned over, rather than specific dates," Gates told a news conference. Asked about...
Newsday (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Cane Producers Association of Trinidad and Tobago (CPATT) intend on writing separate letters to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the issue of the European Union grant funding to Trinidad and Tobago.
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wei08 | 11/09/2009
Key players in the Group of 20 refused to support a plan create an insurance fund to pay for bailouts if governments have to step in again to save giant businesses on the brink of collapse. Finance ministers at the G-20 summit on Saturday discussed the idea of a tax on banks and other financial institutions to help fund future government emergency aid. But U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner indicated...
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