An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

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[PDF file]: The David Kelly mystery John Booth An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] 2) pp. 13-14 and 16, and pp. 375-77. 6 Nairn, The Enchanted Glass (see note 6) p. 240. 7 5 Three Prime Ministers since 2010 – David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak – have been educated, respectively, at Eton, Eton and Winchester. All are graduates of Oxford University. None has any connection with […]

Back to the future (again)

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[PDF file]: […] in the arts. And in foreign policy, Iraq. By 2010 the turn-out gap between the under 35s and the over 55s had widened to 20% producing David Cameron and Brexit (in the 2016 EU Referendum the gap was 17%). It follows that – since, say, 1990 at the latest – had UK politics been […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

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[PDF file]: […] so-called Nudge theory, the idea that people can be nudged to make the right choice without coercing them or restricting their freedom of choice.9 Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama were intrigued by the idea that governments could achieve their goals without having to argue or legislate. (Or regulate). Cameron See, for example, […]

Tittle-tattle

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[PDF file]: […] afforded relief to the former Secretary of State for Defence and his long-time friend and flatmate, but also to No 10 – and not just because David Cameron seems to have plenty of other difficulties on his hands at the moment. The reason is that the Prime Minister’s vivacious press secretary, Gabby Bertin – […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] for the Facebook ‘platforms’ Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. The Mail scents corruption . . . . But would the Mail have run the stories had May and Cameron been Brexiteers? Russiagate ‘Deception is getting real. This month, lawyers for Facebook, Twitter, and Google testified before Congress, facing hard questions and ugly truths about Russia’s […]

Off Message, and, Standing for Something

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[PDF file]: Poor Innocent Fools Off Message Bob Marshall-Andrews London: Profile Books, 2011 £16.99 h/b Standing for Something Mark Seddon London: Biteback Publishing, 2011 £16.99 h/b ‘Forty per cent of the British people believe that Blair should be tried as a war criminal. I am one of that number’. Obviously the memoirs of any Labour MP with […]

The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph

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[PDF file]: […] by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along the way Swire observes the servile performances of Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Jack Straw and David Miliband – none willing to challenge the determination of Washington to pin the blame for Lockerbie on Libya. He is no less […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of Thatcherism: taxes should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).73 ‘The posh boys’ – David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg, who led the coalition government from 2010 to 2015 – simply followed the kind of policies the IMF would have imposed […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] of images of children. This was displayed on Google News and, for a time, so was this comment: Guy Bailey Shared publicly – Yesterday 11:29 PM #David Cameron For the benefit of my non-media savvy friends – this is why the Daily Mail went after Harriet Harman & co. To provide cover for a […]

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