@grahambrownlow
Reader in Economics (from August 1) at QBS. Appointed Fellow of the Royal Economic Society December 2025. Recovering journal editor. Perhaps best known - if at all- for writing about De Lorean? Fan of Bangor FC and low brow cinema.
The late great Nick Crafts told me something similar.
Late to the party. Just finished reading it. Very good book might even be able to blend it into my teaching. Reminds me among other things why Walt Rostow was so unpopular in any setting.
Should be good!
Now on Early View: 'Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968β74'
By Alan de Bromhead, David Jordan, Francis Kennedy & Jack Seddon.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cinema
Quite the double bill...
A young Cribbins in a b/w publicity still for Daleksβ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. He is dressed as a police officer and is attempting to direct Daleks as if they are traffic, with a slightly disconcerted look on his face
Well, what else could we mark on 29 December but the 97th anniversary of the birth of that gift to the world, Bernard Cribbins? (smallπ§΅)