New Labour: party of business and the rich Gordon Brown has appointed the US multi-millionairess Jennifer Moses as a Downing Street adviser. She is a former managing director at bankers Goldman Sachs and achieved considerable notoriety when her personal assistant stole £1 million from her bank account.
Did China free Tibet? The most patronising argument used to defend China’s crackdown on Tibetan protests is that Chinese rule has benefited and developed Tibet. Some on the left even argue that Chinese domination liberates Tibetan women. The argument is all too familiar – the Russians, the US and Britain said the same thing about liberating women in Afghanistan.
