Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

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[PDF file]: […] questions raised by serious people, and the world is watching.’ But Mr Salmond, following the precedents of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, was adamant in his refusal: ‘They’re looking for an inquiry for the responsibility, ultimately, for Lockerbie. That touches on matters of huge international importance which would […]

South of the Border (updated 4 Aug 2022)

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[PDF file]: […] Liz Truss). Doubtless this is the real reason for the removal of the whip: divide and conquer. 2 These being Tony Blair , Gordon Brown and David Cameron . 3 It is quite possible that he had/has someone managing his social media. 4 1 eerily quiet.5 It was the weekend after his attendance at […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

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[PDF file]: […] 1975. Some of those files related to William McGrath. To make matters worse, it is now clear from the Inquiry’s transcripts that a senior MI5 officer, Ian Cameron, falsely accused me of ‘leaking’ information to the press about William McGrath. His claim was that I did so without authority. The MI5 claim is bizarre […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] strange address lists. I received an e-mail shot from Will Davies, co-founder of aspect.co.uk, ‘London’s leading property maintenance and refurbishment company’. In this Davies complains that: ‘David Cameron is more suited to public relations than being prime minister. He’s constantly spinning the facts and not dealing with the basic problems. Take the total inability […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

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[PDF file]: […] the system; it is the system. Tony Blair came to power after assuring the City of his benign intentions. He then deregulated it and cut its taxes. Cameron didn’t have to assure it of anything: his party exists to turn its demands into public policy. Our ministers are not public servants. They work for […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of ISIL in North Africa. Through his decision making in the National Security Council, former Prime Minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy.’1 2 ‘An opportunist policy of regime change’? The committee did, however, wonder about the […]

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