SEMINAR 9

Don't forget to bring along Seminar 8 next week: we will be finishing it off before discussing Gordon Brown's first months in office. 

Seminar 9 is a newspaper article but to help you do some research on Gordon Brown here are a few links to interesting articles : 

The Observer offers an article similar to that of The Telegraph that you are studying : insisting on Brown's strategies to get people back to work with the help of the private and voluntary sectors.

 The Spectator, a generally conservative newspaper, offers a longer analysis of the choices faced by Brown : how to deal with Blair as a former PM and with his over-reaching legacy. 

After quite a bit of dithering, Gordon Brown decided to nationalise Northern Rock, the failed bank that almost went under last summer. What does such a decision mean ? Does this mark in any way a return to nationalisation policies? 

A presentation  by the Economist of the next budget : Alistair Darling is possibly over-estimating the future growth of the British economy on which his budget partly rests. 

Gordon Brown suffers from taking the stage after a brilliant actor. 

The Economist on recent electoral polls.