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'''Gordon Brown''' (born 20th February 1951) is the current [[prime minister of the United Kingdom]] and leader of the [[governing|government of the United Kingdom]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. He is also a [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath]] in his native [[Scotland]].
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Brown succeeded his [[politics|political]] rival [[Tony Blair]] as prime minister in June 2007; much has been made of the differences between the two men, though Brown remains a supporter of the centre-left 'New' Labour [[ideology]] in which [[socialism]] plays no part. He is said to be slightly more left-wing than Blair,<ref>''[[Channel 4]] News'': '[http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/brown+vs+blue+on+going+green/291852  Brown vs blue on going green].' 12th March 2007.</ref> and slightly cooler towards the '[[special relationship]]' between the UK and the [[United States of America|USA]].<ref>''[[Daily Telegraph]]'': '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/20/wirq220.xml Relations will be less special, Washington fears].' 21st May 2007.</ref> However, the two share a similar outlook over the [[Iraq War]], a conflict Brown supported, and on a more practical level, he has pledged to continue his predecessor's commitment to addressing [[global warming|climate change]] and international [[terrorism]].<ref>''[[BBC]] News'': '[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6229596.stm Brown pledge to cut state control].' 22nd June 2007.</ref>
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Prior to taking office as premier, Brown served for ten years as the UK's [[finance]] minister, the [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]. Those ten years since 'New' Labour was first elected in 1997 were often marked by behind-the-scenes feuding between the so-called 'Brownite' and 'Blairite' camps; in one memorable instance, an anonymous briefing declared Brown "psychologically flawed."<ref>''[[BBC]] News'': '[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/252677.stm Civil war that hit New Labour project].' 11th January 1999.</ref> More recently, documents appeared in the mass [[media]] suggesting that Blair intended to remove Brown from the [[Treasury]] and offer him the post of [[foreign affairs|foreign]] minister.<ref>''[[Independent]]'': '[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2701305.ece Revealed: Blair's secret plan to sack Gordon Brown].' 24th June 2007.</ref>
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==External links==
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*[http://www.pm.gov.uk 10 Downing Street] - official website for the UK prime minister's office
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*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5322946.stm Timeline: Blair vs Brown] - details on the ups and downs of the Blair-Brown partnership, from the BBC
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'''Red Dwarf''' is a [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy]] originally aired on [[United Kingdom|British]] [[television]] by the [[BBC]] in 1988. By the final series in 1999, it gone from a [[cult television]] favourite to mainstream success, spawning several original [[novelisation]]s and accompanying [[merchandising|merchandise]]. Interest in ''Red Dawarf'' remains high, with a loyal [[fan]] base and continuing attempts to launch a [[movie]] version of the series.
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''Red Dwarf'' was created by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], [[Manchester]]-based scriptwriting partners who worked under the pseudonym [[Grant Naylor]]. Their partnership lasted from the late 1970s, when they worked on several series together and wrote material for various [[comedian]]s such as [[Jasper Carrott]]. During this time, they were attempting to get a sci-fi sitcom into production, with the central character the last [[human]] in the [[universe]]. In 1983, this saw the light of day on [[radio]] as ''Dave Hollins: Space Cadet'', though Grant and Naylor continued to approach the BBC with a script made for television which took this basic idea and expanded it. This script, which was rejected by the BBC for three years, was called ''Red Dwarf'', after the [[mining]] ship on which the central character would find himself almost alone.
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The BBC rejected the script several times because it was felt that a sitcom with science-fiction elements would not work. Grant and Naylor kept submitting basically the same script through the producer [[Paul Jackson]], who eventually convinced the corporation to commission six episodes. ''Red Dwarf'' aired five years after ''Dave Hollins'' was first broadcast.
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The new programme had been considerably changed and expanded upon. Hollins became [[Dave Lister]], a lazy and rather unkempt employee of the Jupiter Mining Corporation, who has the dubious honour of being the lowest-ranked crew member of the JMC's gigantic ship ''Red Dwarf'', a vessel sent through the [[solar system]] on a mining expedition. His room-mate is [[Arnold Rimmer]], a deeply competitive, throughly nasty incompentent who has reached the dizzying heights of second-lowest rank aboard the ship. Lister is punished for bringing aboard an [[quaratine|unquarantined]] [[cat]] by being placed in [[suspended animation]] for eighteen months; however, while he and his cat are respectively sealed in stasis and the ship's hold, a [[radiation]] leak kills everyone else on board.
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Having set up the idea of a ship the size of a [[city]], Grant and Naylor now had Lister almost alone in the universe; three million years have passed before ''Red Dwarf'''s [[computer]], the artificially-(un)intelligent [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]], was able to release him unharmed. Whereas Dave Hollins had only the ship's computer for company, Dave Lister was given two new companions: a [[hologram]] simulation of the long-dead Rimmer, and [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]], apparently the last of a [[race]] of feline humanoids that [[evolution|evolved]] from Lister's [[pet]]. With the crew reduced to [[dust]] (as Lister discovered, but not before accidentally eating some of their remains), these four characters would find themselves travelling through an empty universe; initially confined to the ship, the series moved towards [[comedy drama]] as more [[money]] flowed into the production team's coffers and more [[special effects]] and [[location filming]] was made possible.
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