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Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Lib-Con government, but this collection tells us a lot about the regime that preceded it 187 Summer 2010 and, thus, partly why Nick Clegg and David Cameron are now sitting in No 10. Between them they also indicate why The Guardian and The Observer, home to the authors of two of the books […]

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[…] 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

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] we might describe as bearing the torch of American isolationism.17 Telling it like it is (sort of) 17 David Davis, the Conservative MP who lost to David Cameron in the contest for leader of the Tory Party, is one of the more interesting mainstream politicians today. He is a prominent defender of civil liberties, […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Sion Simon, a recent New Labour minister for the creative industries. Simon, like Applebaum a former Conrad Black columnist, became known in 2006 for mimicking a David Cameron webcast.2 He claimed to be leaving Parliament to seek election as mayor of Birmingham. At the same time, Simon’s partner, Luciana Berger, 29, was parachuted into […]

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[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).60 What Davis calls ‘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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘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 […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).42 What Davis calls ‘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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[…] has changed? Then it seemed worthwhile to stick two fingers up to the British state, headed by Margaret Thatcher, by revealing (minor) state secrets. Today we have Cameron and Clegg, imitations of Tony Blair, Thatcher’s successor, who hardly matter. Then, influenced by research on the ‘Wilson plots’, the secret state seemed important and powerful. […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] samples from the prisoner, sent after his death to a British laboratory by the Senior Honorary Consultant in Forensic Medicine to the Armed Forces, Professor J. M. Cameron of London University (who carried out the autopsy on Hess). or . 16 14. Why does the printing on the undated label of the blood slide […]

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[…] should be low and the state should be small (but must bail out the banks whenever their gambling backfires).29 What Davis calls ‘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 […]

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