The Richer, The Poorer, by Stewart Lansley

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[PDF file]: The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed The Poor – A 200-Year History Stewart Lansley Bristol: Policy Press, 2022, £19.99 (p/b) John Booth When the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times sees Britain with its lifeless economy sliding towards authoritarianism,1 we should be afraid of something rather more serious than […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Understanding Shadows The Corrupt Use of Intelligence by Michael Quilligan

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[PDF file]: […] proof-read and typeset. In Schmidt’s introduction, for example, he bothers to put the cedilla under facade – façade – as in the original French but has David Cameron as David Cameroun; and although it probably shouldn’t matter, I find it irritating that most pages have at least one line where the justification programme on […]

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] modern Conservatives were as one in regarding the military with scorn, of little account. In the universe inhabited by the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May and Philip Hammond, it is the bankers who call the shots; they are the heroes. A paperback edition will be available in […]

Statement of Colin Wallace

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[PDF file]: […] I had submitted. This decision by OPONI is contrary to the assurances given in Parliament by Government Ministers. For example, On 7 July 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron in The Daily Telegraph: “I am absolutely determined that we are going to get to the bottom of these (child sex abuse) allegations and we’re going […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

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[PDF file]: […] relegation. Not quite bottom of the League (Bonar-Law, aka ‘the unknown PM’) and maybe not yet a bookies’ favourite for the drop (like Chamberlain or, more recently, Cameron) but clearly in trouble. There have been efforts to mend his reputation, most recently by D. R. Thorpe, an academic who specialises in salvaging the careers […]

States of Emergency: Keeping the global population in check by Kees van der Pijl

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[PDF file]: […] hospital system was Largely because British politicians and their attendant media are economically illiterate, they were (a) unable to resist the homilies of austerity offered by David Cameron and his ilk and (b) afraid of opposing the City of London and were unwilling to suggest the City should pay for the crisis it had […]

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 […]

Colin Wallace and the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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 […]

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 […]

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